Broader peel

Pedro the banana started as a way to deliver a tutorial and draw attention to Ågren’s Flash game. “Curiosity’s a powerful thing. When you put a gun next to a banana… Looking at Flash sites, there’s hundreds of games of varying quality releasing every day. I needed something that can stand out.” When he decided to create a more fullyfeatured game, however, the banana suddenly became a bit of a head-scratcher. “It became this interesting thing where I had to think, ‘Why a banana? Why this and that, and how can I justify all this stuff now?’” At least, after having signed a publishing deal with Devolver Digital, he doesn’t have to worry much about drumming up interest in the game: “People know that if it’s Devolver, it’s good stuff.”