Spirits is an indie game about creativity and manipulation of play spaces.

Players reshape the game world to guide a group of leaf spirits to their destination. The spirits can be transformed to blow wind, build stairs, dig away ground, or block wind. Each level allows different skill combinations, challenging the player with unique puzzles. While the game is challenging and can be played competitively, it has a certain calmness and relaxing atmosphere to it.

We reserve a long time to polish our games. We give game ideas time to grow and evolve, something we believe can be seen in the games. If we were chefs, we're probably part of the Slow-Food-Movement.

Spirits was a very dynamic indie project, we didn’t know exactly how we wanted the final game to be, but we did know what we wanted it to feel like. Being a small team allowed us to experiment and work in a flexible way that would not be possible in a larger team.

We always work with visual content as soon as possible. It makes a big difference for the play experience if a prototype features graphics that support the game mechanic and atmosphere, compared to using programmer art.

To make a good indie game you always need to balance elements of the game so that they fit well together to create the experience you want the player to have. Since we have some new game mechanics that come together such as dynamic wind and destructible geometry, this was something we spent a lot of time on to get it right. We went through many iterations on the exact properties of the wind and how it affects the spirits.