That you could have made some money off it already and could be working on your next game, and that everything was diminishing returns,' Bruce said, describing the most obnoxious aspect of a multi-year, pre-launch spotlight.

'Having people tell you, for several years, that you were taking too long and that you should have got it out the door sooner. With a premise like that and poppy visuals to match, Antichamber drummed up a substantial amount of pre-launch publicity over the years for an experimental indie game, this situation should have been ideal – but it came with a downside. Luckily for Bruce, Antichamber's main goal was to blow your mind, break boundaries and push the limits of puzzle gaming. If you thought 'everything' sounded like an insane, illogical amount of content to throw into one game, you'd be right. 'Pretty much everything I've ever made somehow found its way into the final version of Antichamber,' Bruce told me. More notable, however, was that Antichamber launched on Steam yesterday, January 31, 2013, and quickly claimed the No.

In the years following Sense of Wonder Night 2009, Bruce's updated, full-game version of Hazard – now called Antichamber– won more than 20 honors, including the award for Technical Excellence at the Independent Games Festival 2012. It was his first official recognition as a developer and Hazard was still a hobby project, something Bruce had worked on in his spare time over the previous six months, based off prototypes he'd messed around with since 2006. In 2009, Alexander Bruce took a week off from his university studies in Australia to fly to Tokyo and present his Unreal Tournament 3 mod, Hazard: The Journey of Life, at Tokyo Game Show's experimental games summit, Sense of Wonder Night.

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