Riverman Media LLC is a small, independent, game development studio located in Tucson, Arizona. It was founded in 2005 by brothers Jacob and Paul Stevens.
Paul and Jacob Stevens
Riverman's mission is to advance the art and science of 2D game creation. Jacob and Paul grew up loving classic games such as Super Mario Bros. 3, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, The Legend of the Mystical Ninja (Ganbare Goemon), Starcraft, and Chrono Trigger. When the game industry almost universally adopted 3D in the mid 1990s, it took many of these games with it. While their 3D counterparts, like Super Mario 64, Starcraft II, and The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time are amazing games, Jacob and Paul believe that the shift to 3D left a huge job undone: to update 8-bit and 16-bit concepts with new technology, graphics, and gameplay.
There are countless ways that advances in technology can help create new 2D game experiences. Sheer graphics horsepower is an obvious example. The enormous pizza in Pizza Vs. Skeletons would have been impossible to implement in the SNES-era. The smooth character animation in IKAROS is also made possible by advanced graphics hardware. Non-graphical technologies, such as the Box2D physics engine used in Deathfall also present intriguing new possibilities.
Through Jacob's unique and slightly twisted art and music, and Paul's meticulous coding and sense of game balance, Riverman Media works tirelessly to bring players new 2D experiences with each game.
Riverman Media is dedicated to staying small and self-funded so it can pursue its 2D experiments unencumbered.
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