'We wanted to keep making weird games,' Hedström. Hedström led a team of 18 to create a 'weird' game, and a couple of them stuck together afterwards. The programme involved making a project in ten weeks.

The team first met during a university game development programme in Skövde, Sweden. The story of Frame Break is quite a remarkable one. So if we can create this game that can attract both players of conventional shooters, but also farming fans, with a different kind of gameplay. Our goal is to make games that will connect people that haven't necessarily played together before. what if we use this perspective without actually being destructive? That might attract people that have not played before. Hedström believes that by combining genres like this, it can appeal to both shooter fans and farming game enthusiasts. Shall we make a peaceful mech farming game? Yes, that's interesting.' Which one should we make? Should we make a mech combat game? We're pretty sure those have been done before. We thought, this isn't a good game, it's two bad games. Everything's just stressful because you need to be strong for the next combat. They don't think about the joy of farming, of taking their time, of decorating their farm and exploring. The player only thinks about the next combat and what they need for that. it's just a combat game with a super complex economy system. We tried that in prototyping, but realised this isn't fun. We had the idea of the mechs protecting the farm from these invading aliens. Big robots don't have to fight Godzilla to be cool. Joakim Hedström, CEO of developer Frame Break adds: 'Mechs are kind of underutilised as a machine of labour. 'We want to push against this constant violence' Denis Ferrier, Amplifier You expect something that is 'Love, Death and Robots', but it's not like that.' and you don't expect something peaceful and a tribute to nature. You see this big tractor mech as a main character. We believe we will do something never done before. 'You play in a first-person or third-person view, but it is always to create, never to kill. 'We want to push against this constant violence, so Lightyear Frontier is everything except violence and brutality,' begins Denis Ferrier, head of publishing at Amplifier Game Invest. It emerges from a crater with two huge weapons for arms. A mech robot ejects and lands on the surface with a bang. A spaceship crashes on a brightly coloured alien world.

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