“Do we explore many, many heads in breadth, or do we focus on a smaller selection and explore these ones in depth?” Balancing that kind of potential has been on their minds almost daily. “We simply have to manage expectations and understand the potential of the worlds we’re making,” says Rudzicz of the process. GNOG is currently the work of two people full time (Samuel Boucher and Nick Rudzicz on art, design and code), and one person part time (Ramsey Kharroubi on sounds). “This has led to us making games across a wide spectrum – generative music and poetry games, all the way to wacky oculus experiments – all with fluid teams.” Instead of creating KO-OP around one game or vision, they had a collective model in mind: find cool artists and game makers who want to make experimental stuff, and put them together so that they can work both collaboratively and independently.

“When we met in 2012, we decided to try to do something different than what was available around us,” says KO-OP’s Saleem Dabbous. The studio behind GNOG, KO-OP, is a rather unique collective based in Montreal, Canada.

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