The internship at Pixel Maniacs
Steam-link to Can’t drive this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/466980/Cant_Drive_This/
Back in 2018 I had the honour to meet the Pixel Maniacs. They are a small indie Studio in Nürnberg Germany. They are known for Chromagun, a Portal like puzzle-shooter with colours, and Can’t Drive This, a mix between Hotwheels and the film Speed. My internship was consisted of working on the latter. I really enjoyed my time there due to the openness to my contributions. „Take an issue, try it and if our standards are met, the pull request will be accepted“. It was a nice, fresh breath of air after the very academical way my education has been at the University of Kempten up to this point. Exulted by the opportunity, I gladly took it up. So I worked my way up from smaller bugs to core features, all of which are present in the released product. In the process they taught me a lot of things, from the proper use of version control tools, up to PR and brand management. It was fascinating to have such an direct point of view at the game development process.
I wish them all the best for their new (at the point of writing) project, Escape the Loop!