The Importance of Art in the Game Industry

A big inspiration for the game in terms of structure was Andrei Rublev, which is a film by Tarkovsky. When I got into the industry, I was like, oh, man, I love making video games, but it's an enterprise and it's a business and I approach everything from that perspective. That eventually kind of caught up with me and started burning me out because it became so much about appeasing expectations and market goals or genre. So working on Pentiment was, in many ways, a big refresher for me after pillars in Dead Fire.