That could be a passion for cars, planes or a membership in the local voluntary fire department for example. For us, our biggest childhood dream has always been the development of video games and against all odds said wish got fulfilled in the beginning of January This is the story of the foundation of Oachkatzlschwoaf Interactive:. Once upon a time⦠First things first. Our little story starts with two good friends going to a high school somewhere in Bavaria, Germany.
I guess we were just two examples of gamers that started imagining how it would be to be the ones developing games. Working on our own games and thereby fascinating thousands of players world wide became a dream. Sometime in eleventh grade, this dream animated us to start learning how to develop our very own games. Of course we did not forget about school and still put most of our effort in that, trust me! Still we had a lot of fun with our little project and I even thought about studying 3D-Design at university for a while.
Games had reached a state of being almost kinda mainstream in Germany but a career in the video game industry was not taken seriously by teachers and parents alike. If you were to talk about that kind of vision of your future you might as well have told them about your plan of wanting to be a sushi chef in Japan or something like that.
We decided to go with more reasonable majors to study at university but our dream lived on. Our time at university While Daniel studied computer science and I went for elementary school teaching we continued working on new projects for example a strategy game played in first person perspective , acquired new skills and learned from the many mistakes we made.
In summer , Daniel began working on a base building game that was giving a lot of emphasis to the emotions of its colonists. We called ourselves Oachkatzlschwoaf Interactive to stress our Bavarian origin. Well, I guess I have to mention that Oachkatzlschwoaf is propably one of the most Bavarian words imaginable. We often make other Germans say it to get a laugh out of it. I wonder why? It was and still is so awesome to think about that!
