Digital Eel

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Digital Eel is a self-funded independent video game development team located in the Seattle, Washington area. The group was formed in 2001 by Rich Carlson, Iikka Keranen and Bill "Phosphorus" Sears as a self-described "labor of love between three friends who like to make games together."

Digital Eel has released one game per year on average since 2001 (not including the Mac OS X Boiler Plate Special, a special compilation for Mac users released in 2004) and is currently working on an unannounced project slated for release sometime in 2006.

Digital Eel games have earned consistent high review scores and several noteworthy accolades including three Independent Games Festival awards for Dr. Blob's Organism and Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.

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[edit] Design philosophy

The "Digital Eel philosophy," as stated in an IGF event program, is playfully sarcastic if not disarming:

The video game industry takes itself too seriously, therefore game names should be as silly as possible.

Considering the offbeat nature of many of their games, Digital Eel's philosophy seems to be centered around the beliefs that game design is a kind of art form and that commercial considerations should be secondary to ones of creative freedom and experimentation.

[edit] Development team

  • Rich Carlson (design, sound, music and art)
  • Iikka Keränen (design, code and art)
  • Bill "Phosphorus" Sears (primary artist)
  • Ed Zavada (Mac ports)

[edit] Testers

The Digital Eel Q&A crew are referred to as the Fearless Testers in the credits for each game.

[edit] Principal testers

  • Kevin Matheny
  • John Slade
  • James Sterrett

[edit] Main crew

  • James Cook
  • Bob Dalgliesh
  • James Ernest
  • Thomas & Zoe Flint
  • Bruce Ladewig
  • Chris Laskowski
  • Duncan McPherson
  • Joe Pallai
  • Brian Uhrig
  • Thom Wetzel
  • Ed Zavada

[edit] Guest testers

  • Greg Costikyan
  • Chris Cummings
  • Jim Price
  • Richard Rouse III
  • Colton Sears
  • Corbin Sears

[edit] Games

[edit] External links


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