Years ago, when he was growing up in Groningen, Netherlands, Marc Volger, the affable co-founder of Square Glade Games, plotted a course toward a career in artificial intelligence. Long before the rise of self-driving consumer vehicles and chatbots on smartphones, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in AI, moved to Florida, and programmed the autonomous vehicles in Universal Studios’ Fast & Furious and King Kong rides.
He was an ocean and a continent away from his native land, developing a hobby of video game programming, when he met Tobi Schnackenberg online. The pair teamed up to co-develop Above Snakes, from Square Glade Games, and Volger left the U.S. and returned to Groningen to turn his lifelong gaming hobby into a career.
But not before he and his wife took a five-week vacation in a camper van across the U.S., which would inspire Outbound, a cozy game about exploring an idyllic, near-future world in your own, fully customizable electric camper van as you live sustainably off the grid.
He was an ocean and a continent away from his native land, developing a hobby of video game programming, when he met Tobi Schnackenberg online. The pair teamed up to co-develop Above Snakes, from Square Glade Games, and Volger left the U.S. and returned to Groningen to turn his lifelong gaming hobby into a career.
But not before he and his wife took a five-week vacation in a camper van across the U.S., which would inspire Outbound, a cozy game about exploring an idyllic, near-future world in your own, fully customizable electric camper van as you live sustainably off the grid.
