New documentary We are alright is a fascinating and brutally ordinary story of indie development
Have you heard the one about Lichtspeer? I doubt it, and that's the point. While the world listens to the stories of the games which made it - the Minecrafts, the Fezs, the Braids - a thousand other stories go unheard. For every overnight millionaire there are a countless many for whom dreams and livelihoods are swept away by the relentless oncoming wave of new games. We are alright, a new documentary by Polish filmmaker Borys Nieśpielak, is the brutally ordinary story of indie game development.
It follows game-making duo Bartek Pieczonka and Rafał Zaremba in the months leading up to the launch of their spear-throwing indie game Lichtspeer, as they cope with the pernickety frustrations of PlayStation certification, the wearying grind of bug-fixing crunch, and the terrifying prospect of 'what if no one cares?'.
We are alright is a fascinating look at the other side of the coin. It shows two people's stark existence while they put relationships and other people's savings on the line to realise a dream we all buy into daily, one way or another. It shows Pieczonka and Zaremba as people like us, striving towards making something meaningful, and the toll it takes upon them.
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