Mama mia!
Austin Piech fully admits that his fiancée Lauren Woodrick is the more tech-savvy half of their coupling.
Woodrick is a front-end developer who codes for a living, while Piech works in marketing and "cobbles things together on the side," he told BuzzFeed Life.
Even so, they game together pretty frequently, favoring big open world games like Fallout and Dragon Age or shooters like Bioshock or Wolfenstein. "One of us will be playing, the other will be on the couch, watching or coaching," Piech said. "We’ll switch off pretty frequently, Lauren tends to be better at puzzles and exploration, I’m a little better at action sequences."
Austin Piech
Before Piech proposed in June, he decided to pop the question by creating the ultimate video game — one that went through every stage of their relationship.
Piech estimates he spent about 100 hours in total on the creation process and about 30 hours directly on the final game, using an engine called Stencyl. He called the finished game “Lolo’s Bizarre Adventure" after her nickname, and once it was ready, asked her to test it for him.
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Every level told the story of a memorable moment from their relationship.
The first level was loosely based on Bockfest, a beer and goat festival in Cincinnati, where Piech first gave Woodrick his number. He introduced every level with a classic, black-and-white screen like this.
Austin Piech
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