Founded 2009 Employees 6 Key staff Jan Hackl, Felix Bohatsch, Clemens Scott, Peter Vorlaufer, Martin Pichlmair (co-founders) URL brokenrul.es Selected softography And Yet It Moves, Chasing Aurora, Old Man’s Journey, Gibbon: Beyond The Trees Current projects TBA
Development was already under way on Chasing Aurora, and Clemens Scott couldn’t settle on an art style for Broken Rules’ Wii U launch title. You could, perhaps, attribute this to second-game jitters, but for the fact that this was Scott’s first project after joining the studio as art director. And nothing he was drawing seemed to fit the concept: a multiplayer action game about the dream of flight.
All it took was a particularly unproductive day while working from home, the door of an overstuffed wooden wardrobe constantly banging off his arm, for Scott to snap. “At some point, I burst and I just kicked that wardrobe,” he laughs. “It fell apart. Everything started slanting slowly, and then collapsing.”
Yet, among the fragments, something caught his eye: the shelves. With a background in analogue art, Scott turned the wood into a canvas, cross-hatching landscapes with a black marker. Over a decade later, he still remembers
