Aurora Punks founder Robert Bäckström wanted to find a way to help small indie studios creative innovative games while trying to navigate the complexities of working with big publishers. So he turned to his experience as a punk rocker to create a video game collective.
Bäckström had the experience of being both a successful game developer and a former punk rocker and music publisher. He had a label, Skrammel Records, and it was all about helping scrappy punk bands survive. The rockers had a do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos about helping other bands in the hardcore scene where he grew up. They helped each other arrange shows, produce records, and deal with promotion and other tasks with limited resources, he said in an interview with GamesBeat.
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