About Us

Tanoka Games is small independent game development team set in Barcelona and founded by a technical modeller and a computational physicist.

We are humble in resources but ambitious in scope. All we need is time and patience.

We think games need to crush the stereotyped definition of media just for entertainment and fun. Games can be more than that: games needs to claim their own pedestal in the hall of artistic expressions. Games offer a unique set of tools that go beyond any other artistic expression.

All arts rely in the personal involvement of the spectator to be completed. Literature, for instance is just a combination of twenty-six characters and pauses until the reader completes the artwork throughout her imagination. This personal involvement creates emotional bonds between the artwork and the user, give rise to the perception of immersion and thus reinforces the communication with the artwork. And games have a unique capacity for immersion. In games the user is no longer an spectator: the player crosses the fourth wall into the stage and become involved in the creative process. What happens in a game, happens to the player. 

Game developers must be aware of this. While game industry seems to be sucked in a secure commercial business model, independent developers have focused on building strong bonds between the game and the player and use them for deploy new experiences, strong sensations and hard emotions that other media could never achieve.

Without loosing the scope of engagement in the design of any of our game projects Tanoka Games try to include something new in that direction.