We started skateboarding, I don’t know, when we were probably 10-years-old or so. Jordan, who’s not on the call, we grew up across the street from one another. RC: So I think, in general, quite a few people in our company, skateboarding part of their childhood growing up. Polygon: We’re getting into it a little bit, but I want to ask you, especially since we’re talking about Skate City, what’s your history with skateboarding? It was pretty flat carpet so you could ride on it a little bit, but you wouldn’t go so fast, so it was good training wheels. That was where I actually learned how to ollie, was on the carpet. We also had a little bit that had carpet. Polygon: Did your parents have one of those unfinished basements with the really smooth concrete? Ryan Cash: Our weather’s so bad that you definitely can’t really skate outside in the winter. There’s definitely a lot of really impressive underground street skaters I’ll see in certain areas where it’s a little less policed, I’ll say. Probably not as big as some of the other mechas in the world that we kind of ended up taking a lot of inspiration from for the game. If you are looking for like an iPad or something bigger I have some suggestions there too but, if I had to pick one game only for my phone, it's my boy Alto.Polygon: What is the skating scene like in Toronto?Īndrew Schimmel: The skating scene in Toronto is pretty mediocre compared to other big cities like LA or New York. Probably too late but figured I'd share anyway. I think the big thing that makes it so great are that you could pick it up and play for 2 minutes or 2 hours, there are a seemingly endless number of achievements that you actually feel like you've accomplished something when you make progress on them, and the mechanics of the game are so tight that, when you lose you know it's because *you* were too fast or too slow, not because the game glitched or some unexplainable thing happened. There's 1-2 minute trailer right on the link that I posted above that pretty much shows you all you need to see. In it's essence it's a snowboarding/runner game but that doesn't do it justice nor does any description I could give. That game is just so well made and clean that it's actually relaxing despite what seems like a lot of action. But out of all of those the best game for the phone for me that I played the most and enjoyed the most is Alto's Adventure. Hitting up subs like /r/IosGaming, /r/AppHookup etc. Man, I've been playing games on both my phone, iPad, Xbox forever.

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