FICTIORAMA STUDIOS

How a team with true family values got a taste for dark futures, voyeurism and conspiracy theories

- ALEX SPENCER

So, how did you meet?’ It’s one of the most common questions when interviewing any creative partnership. In the case of Fictiorama’s three founders, though, there’s not really much mystery to it. Luis Oliván met Alberto Oliván when the latter was born; Mario Oliván completed the trio a few years later. They are, in case this is not completely obvious, brothers. “When we were kids and teenagers, we loved to play text adventure games together, and then point-and-click games,” Luis says. In those early days, at home in Madrid, they dabbled with DIY software 3D Construction Kit and in making simple animated shorts in EA’s Cartooners, but nothing serious came of it, and eventually life got in the way, as it does.