The low-key German creator makes physicsy mobile games with wit and wild invention.
He makes mobile games, so you’ve possibly never heard of him.
Let’s rectify that now, shall we?
His student project, comedy game What the Frog?
“But it was more in my interest to show that the App Store isn’t evil.
(Of course, Okay…?
made very little money as a result - over 99 percent of players played for free.)
Then Stollenmayer tried his hand at word games.
Stollenmayer’s second word game has less slapstick, but is just as ingenious.
With his next trio of games Stollenmayer explored movement, momentum and muddling through some more.
More recently, there’sSong of Bloom, a collage and culmination of all that’s gone before.
This one is a set of interconnected vignettes which swerve radically between art styles and input types.
Stollenmayer is a prolific creator who dabbles in music, video and app design too.
Yes, mobile games are derided and misunderstood by many.
But in Stollenmayer’s hands they’re pure magic.
