Alec Holowka

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Alec Holowka was a Canadian indie game developer, musician and co-founder of independent game companies Infinite Ammo, Infinite Fall, and Bit Blot. He was mainly known for the award-winning titles Night in the Woods and Aquaria. Holowka was introduced to programming at the age of eight when his father bought him the book Basic Fun. Eventually he began working with a freeware group called Zaphire Productions. He then worked for a number of failed startups, including one in Winnipeg, working on a PC multiplayer fantasy action title and a combat racer in Vancouver for the Xbox 360. Holowka acted as sound engineer on the 2006 freeware title I'm O.K – A Murder Simulator as a response to American lawyer Jack Thompson's "A Modest Video Game Proposal". Holowka met Derek Yu in the comments section of popular technology website Slashdot in a post regarding Jack Thompson's proposal and along with Chris Hanson and Phil Jones formed the group "Thompsonsoft" for the one-off release. After its release Holowka introduced Yu to a project he had been working on independently, Yu was interested in the project and the two officially formed developer Bit Blot the week before the Independent Games Festival deadline. The project was released on 7 December 2007 under the title Aquaria, and was the recipient of the Independent Games Festival Seumas McNally Grand Prize for 2007. In 2013, Holowka and independent animator Scott Benson successfully crowdfunded the game Night in the Woods. Night in the

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Night in the Woods (Original Soundtrack, Vol. 1) [At the End of Everything]

Night in the Woods (Original Soundtrack, Vol. 2) [Hold onto Anything]

Aquaria: Original Soundtrack

Flowershop

Night in the Woods [At the End of Everything]

Cascade

Night in the Woods Vol. 1: At The End Of Everything

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Offspring Fling

Alone

Aquaria

Night in the Woods [Hold onto Anything]

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