Arvi Teikari

Factsheet

Developer:
Arvi Teikari
Based in Helsinki, Finland

Founding date:
Earlier in time

Website:
hempuli.com

Press / Business Contact:
baba@hempuli.com

Social:
BlueSky
Mastodon
BlueSky - Baba
Mastodon - Baba

Releases:
Environmental Station Alpha
Baba Is You

Description

I'm a person who makes games and paints.

History

How It All Started

I've been interested in making games since early childhood, but the hobby started in primary school when a schoolmate introduced game-creation tools to me and we started working on a project together. Over the years game development has become a very important part of my life as both a job and a hobby; the freedom the indie scene offers has felt refreshing and the way games allow me to express my ideas has been wonderful.

How Things Are Now

I mostly make smaller experimental games for game development jams and such events; I treat game development first and foremost as a hobby, so most of my games are rather small and might disregard things like visual looks for the sake of testing a concept I thought to be cool. I make the code, design and art of my games by myself, and collaborate with cool composers I know for audio. Environmental Station Alpha was my first proper commercial title, and I won the Nordic Game Jam 2017 with Baba Is You, which went on to become a fairly successful title of its own. I also worked on the game Noita as a part of the Nolla Games team along with Petri Purho, Olli Harjola, and later Antti Tiihonen.

Tools

For almost all the games I've made I've used Clickteam products, namely Multimedia Fusion 2 by Clickteam (https://www.clickteam.com); more recently I've also started to utilize Löve2D (https://love2d.org/wiki/love) I also use Audacity, SFXR and OpenMPT for my audio. I've also dabbled with ActionScript 3 and flash games in the past.

Projects

• Environmental Station Alpha
• Baba Is You