Martina Hotz, co-founder
story design, level design, puzzle design, sound design
Aleksandra Iakusheva, co-founder
original concept, programming, 3D art, project management
Selina Capol, co-founder
visual concept, character design, 2D & 3D art, animation
Aleksandra started the project "Letters – a written adventure" in 2015, as a small game prototype at the Zurich University of the Arts. Creating new words by removing letters and using those to change drawings in a text was innovative and a lot of fun to play. Two years later the three of us decided to refine the prototype with the goal of making a real game out of it. We exhibited several iterations of the project at different game festivals and conferences and even won a grant by the Swiss arts council to continue to work on the project. All the positive feedback motivated us to work on the game full time. We won additional grants, participated in the Swedish accelerator program Stugan and founded our company 5am Games. We are in mid-production with the goal of releasing Letters in the first half of 2021. We are focusing on PC and Mac but work on a mobile version as well. Since we’ve been working together on different projects for over four years, we established an efficient workflow and acquired additional knowledge that helps us with the business side of things. Our goal is to establish ourselves in the international gaming industry and continue to create innovative and authentic games we truly care about.