This nostalgic indie game is a mash-up of comic art and photorealism - why it works

Think about football video games and it would be natural to immediately think of FIFA (or rather, EA Sports FC these days), super slick titles that aim to replicate the experience of watching the beautiful game on television. They tap into the cutting edge tools of Unreal Engine to deliver photo-real results, but somehow leave the emotion of the sport behind.

However, for indie developer Julián Cordero, designer and programmer of Despelote, described on Steam as "a soccer game about people", he was inspired by a more immediate, personal and universal experience.

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Alan Wen
Video games journalist

Alan Wen is a freelance journalist writing about video games in the form of features, interview, previews, reviews and op-eds. Work has appeared in print including Edge, Official Playstation Magazine, GamesMaster, Games TM, Wireframe, Stuff, and online including Kotaku UK, TechRadar, FANDOM, Rock Paper Shotgun, Digital Spy, The Guardian, and The Telegraph.