“They don’t even have the Scottish system of a single – which is like the individually fried item and then the supper which is the item plus chips,” he said.
“It’s chaos down there, they’ve got kebabs and pizzas in the fish and chip shops, which is insane.
“We’re pioneers in the systemic ordering of chip shop menus, which is actually quite handy when you’re making a game, because it’s this easy to use system where it’s just like, ‘this plus this’, add different scriptable objects – it all comes together very nicely when you’re programming it.”
James said he was inspired to have the dialogue in his game in Gaelic after playing a small indie horror game called Sona 2000, which uses the Finnish language and tasks players with heating a sauna.
“I came out of it with this appreciation for Finnish culture and the Finnish language that I didn’t have before, and it just sort of seeped into my subconscious and I thought, ‘wow, it would be great to do something like that for Gaelic’,” James said.
He is now learning Gaelic specifically to help with creating the game – something the money from Creative Scotland would help with.