![]() Miketendo64: With regards to the designs of your delightful ducks, how many alternate versions were there before you happened upon the finished version that makes it into QuaQua? Kyle Misko really did an amazing job with the soundtrack for this game, and these two in particular shine brightest for me. Alongside this Mandarin Garden, inspired by a Japanese garden and named after the Mandarin Duck, a creature associated with fidelity and love in Japan, and one of my personal favorite breeds of duck. Tyrone Anderson: Merginae Reef is possibly my favorite, the map is so alive with the coral and tropical fish swimming below the stage. What are some of the other themed levels players can expect in QuaQua? Miketendo64: Mallard Mansion is such a good name for a Halloween themed level. From here, I eagerly walked home thanking the ducks for their divine inspiration and set to work immediately on making a cartoon-like duck model in Maya. I was thinking to myself about the protagonist of the game, and the image of a little duck balancing blocks on its head, frantically running around, came to mind. I like to sit and watch them from atop the hill with my dog, Skye, to reflect. Tyrone Anderson: There is a small tarn near where I live, where I often see the ducks play in the evening. ![]() Miketendo64: Agreeing with you about a duck deficiency, what about these lovable creators do you love so much? Did anything specific lead to you choosing ducks over any other animal to be your choice of animal-based protagonists? Much of this is still new to me, and QuaQua is a good test for that. Not only this, but QuaQua also gives me time to learn about marketing, how to actually sell a game and all those other business skills you cannot learn from books. A Snoot’s Adventure is my main focus title, but QuaQua is a ton of fun and gives people something in return who want to support me and all my future games. Working alone, I made QuaQua in four months from start to finish in the hope that it would help build my company. I do everything but the music! That is by an incredible composer I am lucky to be working with, Kyle Misko. Tyrone Anderson: Right now, I am Devoke Studio, I am a solo independent developer. Miketendo64: And now to follow-up, what is your role at Devoke Studio and what is the extent of your involvement with QuaQua? Now here I am finally taking the first steps to making this dream a reality, releasing my first game QuaQua. That dream has kept me strong and motivated for a lot of years. I have always wanted to be a games developer, and I guess I stopped at nothing to achieve this dream. Tyrone Anderson: Hi there, I am Tyrone Anderson, a solo indie game developer and the creator of Devoke Studio. Therefore, would you be so kind as to introduce yourself to our readers and tell us a bit about yourself and your background? ![]() Miketendo64: Before we dive right into the probing questions, we always like to start things off nice and light. Now we’re back with our second QuaQua focused interview and this time we’re discussing ducks, customizations and Merginae Reef, but first, let’s welcome back Tyrone: Mr. In the first part of our mini-series comprised of QuaQua interviews, we discussed the game’s upcoming Steam release and Tyrone’s hopes of bringing the game to the Nintendo Switch. Welcome back to another Miketendo64 interview that sees us chatting with Devoke Studio’s Tyrone Anderson, regarding the upcoming QuaQua. It became a part of South Africa in 1994, along with the other nine Homelands.By Jack Longman Devoke Studio, QuaQua, Steam, Tyrone Anderson And he waddled away, till the very next day… The South African government granted this Homeland self-government on 1 November 1974. The area had originally been the home of the Bakwena and Batlokoa groups and when they united in 1969 the region was called KwaKwa, which changed to Quaqua in the same year. Quaqua, or Qwaqwa, means "whiter than white" in the San language and referred to the Sandstone Hills of the Drakensberg Mountains, where the Homeland was situated. The country's main income came from these migrant workers. The land in the region was Mountainous and unsuitable for cultivation so most of the men had to leave their homes to become part of the migrant labour force. The population of the homeland increased as more people were evicted from the Orange Free State, as a result of the Natives Land Act. By 1960 there were 20 000 residents, which increased to 300 000 in 1980 and more than a million in 1990. The capital was Phuthaditjhaba and initially about 180 000 Seosotho speaking Basotho people lived within its borders. It was only 655 square kilometres big and bordered on Lesotho. Quaqua, or Qwaqwa, was a homeland created for the Southern Sotho people from a reserve in the Orange Free State (OFS) that had been granted to the followers of a relative of Moshoeshoe.
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