Ukko & Guará: Stellarbound News

Take a look on the teaser trailer our team has prepared for the game.

In this short video you will learn how the story of Ukko and Guará begins.

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We are now entering the final sprint on the development of Ukko & Guará: Stellarbound. It is a dense, urgent, delicate, and stressful but a very important moment of the game development process.

As we move level-to-level, reviewing, adjusting, balancing, improving and making things better for the player, we are also experiencing the first view of all those days working on the project and appreciating the fullness of it.

Different people (artists and developers) were involved, and some, someway still involved, have dropped their bit of themselves in the game. For some, it will be the first game release on Steam; for others, it is the first game ever developed.

Ukko & Guará: Stellarbound a result of love, creativity and a lot of work. Soon it will be available for everyone here on Steam. We hope you all enjoy our game.

Don’t forget to add to your wishlist so you don’t miss the release date.

It’s time to drink a lot of coffee!



Thank you!

Ukko is representing Finland in our game; it is a shy and gentile reindeer. The noble friends of Santa Claus live on Lapland, a region to the north of Finland. The reindeer is not the national animal of Finland but we choose it to be in the game due to its serenity and because people admire them in general. There are many different species of reindeer all through the countries near the Artic Polar Circle; those species vary in size, fur and behavior. The reindeer is also the symbol of Christmas. If you are looking for its scientific name, Rangifer tarandus fennicus is what you are looking for.


Image by Uusijani

Alice Mattosinho is the artist responsible for the design and voices of the character; she shares with us her creative process for Ukko: “it is a serene animal, a counterpart for Guará, who shares some of Brazilian habits. I was looking for an animal that could bring that idea of a calm creature. It reflected also on the voice directing for both characters”. For the visual of Ukko, Alice told: “it was so cool to research all the variations of reindeer’s fur and, with that; I could try different possibilities for the concept art. The national animal of Finland is the bear, so I decide to use it on the clothes of Ukko with the colors of Finland’s flag, the white and the blue. To complete the visual, I choose to make Ukko hold a cup of coffee, because Finland has the highest index of coffee consumption per citizen in the world. It should be good drink for the cold temperatures".


Character Design by Alice Mattosinho

With Guará, Ukko is going to have an amazing adventure ahead. Many challenges await these two friends in the looking for understanding the connection between them. Join us on the next posts to learn more about the incredible story that we are creating.


Character Design by Alice Mattosinho

Meet Guará, a manned-wolf from Brazil. His name is based on the Brazilian name for the species “lobo-guará” in Portuguese. Manned-wolfs are a very special animal from the Brazilian fauna, they are very rare to see and are typically found on the cerrado (a savanna like biome) regions of Brazil. Manned-wolfs are the biggest canids in South America and they are featured on the Brazilian ballot of R$200.00. We have chosen this incredible animal as the Brazilian character of the game.

The mystical creature that resembles a cross between a gray wolf and a red fox was undoubtedly the best option for a character. Playful, very sociable, funny and who loves to make friends, Guará is like a IMP, moving a little away from the shy and lonely Chrysocyon brachyurus, the real world manned-wolf.


Image by Celso Ferrarezi Jr

Maqna’s Lead 2D Artist, Thaís Ferreira, was in charge of the character design of Guará. She shares her process of creation of the character: “the first thing that came to my mind was the fact that he needed to be cute, and somehow, despite the fact that he is an animal of the Brazilian fauna, he needed to have any element in correlation to the Brazilian people. I decided that he had to use a pair of slippers; I think there isn’t any Brazilian soul that never used this kind of footwear in its life. This way, Guará is able to show, a least for me, the simplicity and sympathy that most of the Brazilians have, and of course, the joy of living”.


Character Design by Thaís Ferreira

Guará, the little Brazilian who through a shooting star made a beautiful friendship with a curious reindeer all the way far in Finland and that you will meet on our next post, is awaiting for you to join this magic journey between worlds.


Imagem por Banco Central do Brasil

Welcome to Ukko & Guará: Stellarbound page on Steam! Here you can follow all the news of the game, learn about the beginning of the project, fall in love with the characters and the story we are building on. In addition, you can contribute to the development by sending your suggestions here or on the discussion panel.

Ukko and Guará will be very happy and excited to have you here with us!