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Everything from Backstage, ordered by year. How projects and games come about, what drives us, and what we learned along the way.

2026

  1. Risk first

    Every project has tasks you tick off quickly, and tasks where nobody knows yet whether they will work. We start with the second kind.

    by Beda Binder

  2. How a game comes about

    From the brief to the first round played at the event. We develop games entirely in-house, from the game idea through the programming to the built housing. A look at the steps in between.

    by Beda Binder

2025

  1. From vision to reality

    Before we build anything, the client has to be able to see what it will look like. How a hand sketch becomes a visualisation, and the visualisation becomes a brand presence.

    by Cristian Conde

2024

  1. Backstage at Openair Frauenfeld 2024

    Months pass between the first briefing and the last cable on site. Five people from the team talk about what that feels like, and the organiser says what he values about working with us.

    by Rachel Manetsch

2022

  1. How a project comes about

    Swings, a Caribbean beach bar and a private jet hidden inside a container. Creative Director Cristian Conde explains how the Heineken Silver festival presence came about.

    by Cristian Conde

2020

  1. From the made archive

    We dug around in the old boxes and found our showreel from 2019. A fair amount has changed since, and yet not that much.

    by Beda Binder

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