Simon Stafsnes Andersen, Owlboy creator and artist, was recently interviewed by Nintendo Everything. Andersen is a part of D-Pad Studio, the team that released Owlboy on multiple platforms in 2016.
D-Pad Studio brought the game to the Nintendo Switch a month ago. At one point in the interview, Andersen talked about the process of bringing the game to Nintendo’s console.
Anderson about porting Owlboy
Game development is always difficult, and the Switch was no different. In terms of getting the game to run on the system it was surprisingly painless considering how old our code base was. We are very pleased it all worked out in the end though.
It’s always good to hear how ‘easy’ it is for parties to port something towards the Nintendo Switch. It is like saying to others just do it (no Nike did not sponsor us to say that!)
