It’s just past 9am in Melbourne when Johnny Galvatron hops into our Zoom call. He’s wearing some pretty slick leopard trim shades, as though the very concept of being sentient at such a time offends him. Otherwise, he looks and sounds stoked to be here, and it’s that chaotic rockstar energy that has propelled his debut game, The Artful Escape, to critical acclaim in the last year.
Even at a glance, The Artful Escape is brimming with rock and roll vigour, and Galvatron brings handfuls of that from his past life as a musician. He tells us about his time spent on tour with Transformers-inspired rock band, The Galvatrons, and the time he spent on the road.
“I signed to Warner Bros when I was quite young, and went off on tour to live that crazy rock and roll lifestyle,” he tells us. “That was fun for a little while, but it wasn’t really for me. I hated touring, I hated…
