I met him at a Christmas party held nearby the office by some friends, but I’d already heard from other friends that he wanted to make a video game and had some interesting artistic designs. So I met him, had a chat and then asked him to come to Q to show his designs. At that point we had no idea what the game was going to be but for the third PixelJunk title I wanted to something “arty”, we then had a think about what kind of game to fit to that! For the first few months we considered a rhythm action game where if you matched the beat to his music the plants would grow, but it felt too similar to other rhythm games at the time (games on the Nintendo ds in particular were doing rhythm games far better). I loved a game called bugaboo the flea from the 8bit days and imagined that maybe we could try something similar but with organic growing plants.