Sautjandi November

Sautjandi November is a game I developed for the Icelandic musician Emmsjé Gauti for his upcoming album and release party. In the game, you play as Emmsjé Gauti, and you have to get through downtown Reykjavík to the venue where he is going to perform.

There are many dangerous obstacles on his way there, so you have to watch out for drunk people and tables covered in alcohol bottles.

I didn’t expect the game to become as popular as it did, but it was a pleasant surprise. In the first 12 hours, the game had reached 13 thousand individual players, and by the second day, it was over 22 thousand. Which is not bad, considering that it was just for an Icelandic market and our population is only 320 thousand.

The game was launched online, but we also made a second version for the local arcade, where fans of Gauti could come and play the game. The arcade version included a high score table.