BABAROGA COMPANY FAQ

The Interview

I am Babaroga. I founded the studio in Chicago in 2001, with a second lair in Belgrade, Serbia. Ninety-plus shipped games on console, PC, mobile, VR and arcade. Original IP, licensed IP, and the games of others that arrived on fire. I agreed to answer questions in the moment of weakness. The details of how I was persuaded are sketchy. However, the end result is known.

I make good games. Ninety-plus shipped games on console, PC, mobile, VR and arcade: my own, other people's, and the ones delivered to my door already burning. I came to the New World to focus on children. Games turned out to be the most efficient way to reach them. You have played my games. You may not have known it was mine. That is how it is done, and I have made my peace with it. Mostly.

Not every question needs answering. I am the only one that signs contracts. Babaroga LLC is the company. BabaRoga is what the villagers and naughty children called me: horned, iron teeth, vile, a cave dweller, Where are they now? Did they ever come back? I am the founder, and the founder is me. On this page you are speaking about the studio, and the studio is me. What happens at the studio, stays at the studio.

I do. Rumors that a human runs the studio abound. The rumors are not entirely without basis; someone has to sign for the devkits. He has been producing my games for twenty-five years, co-founded TRIPP, the VR wellness company, and is named on a patent about breathing. He patented breathing. Where would you be without his patent? I let him keep the title. It calms him. But think through this - Does Sauron's Mouth run Mordor or does Sauron? Never forget.

In your heart and in your head. in the corners of a dark room. in your hat and curtain. Also in Chicago, Illinois, and Belgrade, Serbia. One lair in the New World, one in the old country, seven hours apart. Seven turns out to be the correct number: Belgrade has a full day of work finished before Chicago has located its coffee or children.

Big enough. We have about 35 people, roughly 15 in the United States and 20 in Belgrade. Engineers, artists, animators, technical artists, designers, producers. Small enough that everyone knows who broke the build. Large enough to ship a console title without borrowing anyone's children.