Petri Purho (born 1983 in
Kouvola,
Finland[Interview about crayon physics](_blank)
/ref>) is a Finnish game developer and a cofounder of the game studio Nolla Games. He has previously also worked at Finnish independent video game developer studio Frozenbyte.[IGF finalists at TIGSource](_blank)
/ref> He is best-known for the roguelite '' Noita'' and the puzzler '' Crayon Physics Deluxe'', which won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival in 2008.
Purho initially made a name for himself as a rapid game prototyper. Almost all of his early games were created within one week as a massive prototyping project. Most common element of these prototypes are various bonuses for successful combos and/or chain reactions. These games were mainly created using open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
technologies.
Crayon Physics
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''Crayon Physics'' was Purho's tenth rapid game prototype and was coded in five days.
References
External links
Kloonigames
- Homepage of Petri Purho
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1983 births
People from Kouvola
Finnish video game designers
Video game programmers
Living people
Finnish computer programmers
Indie game developers