

Paradise just worked. One of the things I think works well is that when people play mobile games, they want to have a short escape.

We want all the minions to have their ideal place and to have the players be able to create that place for them. It just captured the feeling that we wanted to go for. There’s a water slide in that image that we actually put in our game. We just thought, ‘How would players want to interact with the minions?’ There was this iconic image in Despicable Me where all the minions go to this island. He added, “We didn’t actually arrive at it that way. But Rasmussen said the team didn’t just want to create another such game. Paradise island games are very popular on mobile. As we started to create the game design, it centered around that.” They want to be able to reach through the glass and interact with this world of minions. They want to have a very tactile experience. “They want to build things for the minions. What we found is that players really want to play with their minions,” he said. “We did a lot of research before creating the game. “We give you a blank canvas to create your own Minions Paradise,” Rasmussen said.ĮA hopes that the Minions game will last for a while, in part because the movies will keep on coming and also because you’re just going to build, build, and build. You go fishing, but an alligator bites on the hook and swims off, pulling your minion along like a water skier. You can entertain yourself playing mini games, such as riding on the back of a crocodile. These little touches of humor bring these characters to life.”Īs you get more items, you can combine them to create things like ninja stars and swamp gas grenades.

“Well, with Minions, everything can go wrong. “What could go wrong, right?” Rasmussen said. Join gaming leaders live this October 25-26 in San Francisco to examine the next big opportunities within the gaming industry.
