Games done quick
With over 100 games on its CV, developer collective Sokpop is well set to make 100 more
Sitting down to talk to Aran Koning, Ruben Naus, Tijmen Tio and Tom van den Boogaart, lined up across a single Google Meet window, feels like interviewing game development’s equivalent of a boy band. Indeed, the quartet from Utrecht are all so fresh-faced, it’s hard to believe they have over 100 completed games under their belts. In part, that’s been possible because they started young, each toying with computers and game-making tools as kids, before they got to know each other through social events and game jams over a decade ago. But it’s also because Sokpop, the collective they formed in 2017, stuck for several years to a subscription model that promised a game a month. And people liked the results, and kept coming back for more.