Barone worked on Stardew Valley for over four years, handling every aspect of development by himself—from programming and design to music composition and art. This level of perseverance is rare ...

Barone was behind all the programming and the pixel art. He also made the music, which has gotten enough of its own fandom that now there's an orchestra performing the serene music of Stardew ...

Eric Barone's been playing lots of chess and reckons Elon Musk's 'tech tree' idea isn't awful: ... "It's one of the original games, it's very deep, it's a really good game in terms of game design.

Eric Barone, the creator of Stardew Valley, ... And I just want to start by talking about the design aesthetic. I mean, the game’s based all around pixel art. There’s a ton of earth tones… Eric Barone ...

It's an odd statement, given Barone's 2002 trip down a Nicaraguan volcano, the one where the fork on his bike snapped at 107 mph, hurtling him into a horrifying, near deadly crash. It's also ...

Eric Barone Isn’t Concerned. The self-taught game developer talks about moving on from his cozy cash cow and teases what’s to come. ... He taught himself game design, pixel art, ...

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, better known to many as ConcernedApe, recently rediscovered and shared some old hand-drawn concept art for the explosively popular farming life sim, and then ...

'Stardew Valley' developer Eric Barone's next game will have even more detailed pixel art. ConcernedApe LLC "I have pretty much the entire, polished idea in my head, and just have to put it into ...

Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone breaks down his life of music, "underappreciated" 'Stardew Valley' soundtrack, its live tour, and ''Haunted Chocolatier'.

Unveiled late last year, Haunted Chocolatier is a brand new game from Eric Barone, AKA ConcernedApe, who's well-known for developing and releasing Stardew ...