Game design is a daring and dangerous endeavor for Niklas \u00c5kerblad, who creates under the name El Huervo. When he describes the artistic process behind <\/em><\/a>, a neon-speckled platformer set in a demonic cosmic uterus, he talks about pushing against the sharp edges of introspection and sanity, drawing from wells of creativity buried deep in his psyche. It sounds like he could\u2019ve slipped and fallen down any of those wells at any second, never to be seen again.<\/p>\n \u201cI had a pretty rigorous discipline when it came to creating the world of ULTROS<\/em>,\u201d \u00c5kerblad told Engadget. \u201cIt involves deep meditation while working and maintaining 100 percent focus to be able to know when harmony is achieved when working with such a dense flow of shapes and colors. It is almost impossible to cerebrally analyze this process, but it is rather something you have to feel, thus any external disturbance can greatly impact the process. It is perhaps not something I recommend others do without proper experience in creating visual art.\u201d<\/p>\n