6/23/2023 0 Comments Deployit usa![]() The art, a mix between the kind of mural you might find in a London skate park and the strange but cutesy cartoonish vibe of something like Adventure Time, contrasts with an extremely chill soundtrack that soothes your nerves as you try to pull off awesome chains of tricks.Ĭharacterful tribute to skateboarding … OlliOlli World’s avatar creator. It’s a hugely appealing game – and where Roll7’s previous OlliOlli skating games from 2014-15 were technical, demanding and just a touch sterile, this one couldn’t be more out there. The levels in OlliOlli were once based on the fairly dismal view from John and Simon’s office in Deptford this game is set in a colourful skateboarding paradise called Radlandia. It seems to me that something has changed, certainly within the studio but perhaps also with skateboarding culture and what (and whom) it represents. There’s always been queer people in skateboarding but you’d never have seen that representation even seven years ago … Making this game, I was thinking of a lot of the people I skate with now that it would be cool to make a game they feel represented by.” “My experience of getting back into skating in my 30s has been with way different groups of people,” says John. ‘Let’s try to have fun while we’re making it’ … Roll7’s Simon Bennett (left) and John Ribbins at Hop King skate park in London. When you think of skateboarding and video games, you may think of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the delightfully gratifying PlayStation classics that blew up around the turn of the millennium – around the time that John and Simon were skating in their late teens and 20s. ![]() If Tony Hawk’s represented the skate culture at that time (very male, very competitive), OlliOlli World represents it now: more diverse, more colourful and altogether more welcoming.
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