Singaporean video game designer who spent three years creating his own horror game – alone
- Choo Bin Yong’s There Is No Tomorrow is a horror game set in an apocalyptic future where humans are on the brink of extinction
- The project has been featured on gaming sites and nominated for an award at the 2020 Indie Prize Singapore
Creating a video game isn’t easy, if games such as developer Rockstar Games cowboy epic Red Dead Redemption 2 is anything to go by. That game, famed for its ludicrously gritty details, took seven years to make with a team of 3,000 people, many of whom experienced burnout.
Singaporean game developer Choo Bin Yong recently released his first game on the dominant PC gaming platform, Steam. He might be better known as Koex Studio – of which he is the only staff member. Yes, he created the game entirely on his own.
There Is No Tomorrow is a horror game with a simple elevator pitch: think The Last of Us meets Metal Gear Solid , with a side helping of inter-dimensional beings and Lovecraftian horror.
“It’s a complicated project,” says Choo, who previously worked as a 3D animator before becoming an indie game developer.