‘I'm proud that there are gamers who spend 60 to 100 hours in my storytelling world,’ he says. One is to hold the gaming audience’s attention for a long time. In advance, Kaayk had set a number of practical and content-related goals. This in turn led to a deal that everyone wishes they had: Microsoft took a copy of Next Space Rebels and is offering it through its own subscription service Game Pass. ‘Without the Fund’s starting grant, we would never have been able to do this deal, which allowed an experimental art project to grow into a commercial one,’ says Kaayk. San Francisco-based Humble Games partnered with them and funded the third phase of the project. This was found at the Global Developers Conference (GDC) in the US, where they were able to bring the game to the attention of the network of game publishers. The team also looked for additional funding. Kaayk, as the director with technical knowledge, put together a small team with a large network: Paulien Dresscher, curator of the digital culture programme at the Netherlands Film Festival and Into The Great Wide Open, producer Siuli Ko, two interns from St Joost academy, one of whom, creative gamer Tijmen Meijer, now works permanently at Kaayk’s studio, the experienced programmer Maarten Brouwer who can set up the complex structure and keep it running in a stable way, and a user-interface developer. To realize the project, he gained knowledge from the European Space Agency, but found most of the information online. With this wide-reaching project, Kaayk is treading new ground, although the game fits in seamlessly with his previous successful projects.
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