How dialog-driven video layering shapes the surreal world of ENA: Dream BBQ

ENA: Dream BBQ adapts Joel G’s cult-following animated web series into a surreal interactive adventure game. The game follows ENA as she searches for the mysterious Boss, playing missions and meeting oddball characters in strange worlds created with a mishmash of trippy textures and techniques.We sat down with the game’s producer, technical director, and tech artist, Evan Nave, and Luke Mirman, who oversees programming, to talk about how a lean team brought this stunningly original (and overwhelmingly popular) game to life.Let’s start by talking a bit about the game and what you were trying…