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As part of our Gaming For Pixels interview series, The Pixel Project spoke to the awesome Ian Gregory, co-founder and creative director of Witching Hour Studios who created the award-winning MASQUERADA. Having commited the egregious sin of doing poorly in school as a Singaporean, Ian starting working young and only returned to his studies at 23, receiving a scholarship at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In 2010, his second year there, Ian co-founded Witching Hour Studios with some friends. Six years on, Witching Hour has garnered awards and international recognition for their line of Ravenmark games and the off-kilter Romans in My Carpet!. Their latest title, Masquerada: Songs and Shadows, was successfully funded on Kickstarter. Ian takes an interest in education and the proliferation of the local game industry, spending his time engaging with schools, government agencies and industry partners. Aside from Witching Hour and industry endeavours, you can find him playing board games, tabletop RPGs and lots of Lego.

As part of our Gaming For Pixels interview series, The Pixel Project spoke to Hyacinth Nil and Reed Lewis, co-founders of Abyssal Uncreations. Hyacinth Nil is a nonbinary interactive artist, musician, and game maker from New York. They make things about gender, kink, computers, alien ruins, dead gods, and the stuff that scares us. Reed Lewis is a nonbinary novelist from New York.  Abyssal Uncreations was formed when they realised that they had a story that they wanted to tell that they hadn’t seen before. They are purveyors of dark media with a purpose, creators of multifaceted narratives meant to simultaneously unnerve and shine a light on issues of identity, queerness, gender, neurodivergence, and other themes they’d like to see more of in media they consume. _transfer is their first video game.

As part of our Gaming For Pixels interview series, The Pixel Project spoke to the fabulous Gwen Guo who is a Singapore-based sound designer for video games and also the co-founder of IMBA Interactive with 7 years in the industry. Serving mainly the indie community, she hopes that excellent audio production, implementation and practices can contribute to indie games rising to become a powerful storytelling medium in this region. IMBA Interactive is a Singapore-based game audio studio founded in 2013. They create original sounds, noises, music tracks, and voice work and integrate them into games, videos and installations. They have contributed sonically to a wide variety of mobile, desktop, console and VR games, including award-winning titles such as “Masquerada:Songs and Shadows” (Witching Hour Studios), and “Mr. Catt” (7quark).