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Alan Wen

This nostalgic indie game is a mash-up of comic art and photorealism - why it works

Despelote indie game interview; sepia toned images of a South American city with 2D characters.

Think about football video games and it would be natural to immediately think of FIFA (or rather, EA Sports FC these days), super slick titles that aim to replicate the experience of watching the beautiful game on television. They tap into the cutting edge tools of Unreal Engine to deliver photo-real results, but somehow leave the emotion of the sport behind.

However, for indie developer Julián Cordero, designer and programmer of Despelote, described on Steam as "a soccer game about people", he was inspired by a more immediate, personal and universal experience.

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