“I should be thinking about making another game probably. I had a vague idea about making a user-created-content version of Small Worlds, where people could upload new worlds for each other to explore, but the technical side would need some thought. I have an idea for something else, but it’s more pixel art – maybe I should try a completely different aesthetic next.”

I am *pleading* with you to make another game. By all means stretch yourself for your next release, but please don’t rule out working on another Small-Worlds-type game after (or during — maybe you’ll be the next Mateusz Skutnik, working on 3 or more awesome games at any given time) you try your hand at something completely different in terms of playstyle.

Personally, I love the idea of a subsequent Small-Worlds-type release with a level editor or other facility for user-created “worlds” to be shared with other players, but I also hope you’ll make a second game at least as big and complex as the original game, first. I haven’t actually played Knytt Stories, because the reviews I’ve seen near-universally complained how disappointing it was, compared to the care that went into the original Knytt (and Within a Deep Forest); I’d hate to see the same fate befall Small Worlds.

I want Small Worlds to be a series that will rival the Submachine series in my heart.

Whatever games you create — or don’t — in the future, though, you will always have my gratitude for the transcendent experience of Small Worlds.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/reader-top-50-2009-survey

It’s absolutely stunning. Stark, haunting, and so beautifully evocative… Such a perfect understanding of video game story telling at it’s rawest. I can’t believe how much you’ve encapsulated here; by any measure, it’s a work of art. Thank you!