Tom hardwidge biography
Tom Hardwidge is a....
Continuing our build-up to Debug Indie Game Awards and discovering more great indie games!
Arthrobots are unique and individual arthropod sculptures created by me, Tom Hardwidge.
Ahead of the big night, we spoke to Tom Hardwidge from Tall Story Games who has 2 nominated on the night with Lucy Dreaming (ICYMI) and Heir of the Dog (Most Anticipated)&#;
THE JOURNALIX: You accidentally became a video games developer, right?
TOM HARDWIDGE: Well, sort of.
I run a digital marketing agency with my wife, and we were approached by one of our clients (The Roman Baths museum in Bath) to see if we were interested in creating an online game to support one of their promotional campaigns.
POINT & CLICK ADVENTURES
During the meeting, I jotted down a couple of ideas and, immediately, my mind started to picture the game as an old-school point & click adventure like Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and the LucasArts classics I adored growing up.
We pitched this idea to the client and they loved it.
This then gave us a window of about three months to design and dev
