For a game based on the relationship between a child and a real-life alcoholic, it seems like an unusual setup. He's playing with an inch-tall toy doll that his son snuck under his luggage tag as a present before he left Montreal, where Minority is based.Ībout 30 hours later, I see him at a bar promoting Papo & Yo. He has the excitement of a child with a light lisp and a thick accent.

I first meet with Caballero the day before this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. 'What is the one game I'm gonna make before I die?'Īnd now I can't imagine people will know him for anything but. 'What is the one thing I'm gonna do before I die,' he says. Caballero himself is main character Quico, presented as his father's friend's son he knew growing up: the 'funny,' 'handsome' and 'energetic' kid he always wished he could be. His first love, a literal representation, but one who also shares elements of his real-life brother. His mother, a protective robot friend that he wears as a backpack. The story of his life, as told through metaphors.Ĭaballero's father appears as a monster - who's addicted to alcohol, represented by frogs. Then, just before last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, Caballero revealed his new company, Minority Media, and announced their first game: Papo & Yo. And the one who left Electronic Arts in part because he didn't like the morality behind shooters. He's the one who suggested soldiers should use tampons to heal partner wounds. And its congratulatory ass slap, before the team cut it. Prior to 2011, Vander Caballero was best known as the guy who gave Army of Two its high five. Minority Media's Vander Caballero opens up about making a game based on his childhood, or as he calls it, the one game he wants to make before he dies.

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