OUR STORY

Ed and Trey have been bestest friends and gamer buds since they were 8 years old in the 80’s. Yup, we’re old. 26 years ago, Trey left Tucson for a career in game dev in Los Angeles and then Vancouver – while Ed made solo indie games, built fighting game sticks for professional EVO players, and even owned his own arcade in Tucson. A little more than a year ago, Trey moved back to Tucson and he and Ed have joined forces to live out their childhood dreams of being full-time indie game developers together… as Echo Tango… because it sounded cool and naming things is really hard.

Ed and Trey are determined to deliver games that take Players to their happy places and coax them into staying for awhile. We are making games inspired by the experiences that have molded and shaped us as gamers and developers. Our focuses are deep and super-satisfying gameplay, game worlds that fully immerse Players and spark their imaginations, and surprising and delighting Players with true innovation that takes them to places they have never been before. But above all, we are making games that have a SOUL.

  Oooooooh, that’s so deep. But what does that mean smarty pants website writer person? For us, SOUL means we are making games for all the right reasons. Our games are going take risks. Our games are going to have something to say. Our games are going to be made by humans, for humans, and explore the human condition in some of the ways only video games can. We are also committed to trying to make the world a better place by donating a portion of our gross revenue to causes and organizations we believe in.

FOUNDERS

TREY SMITH

Trey was fortunate enough to fall into a game development career in 1999 as a QA tester at Activision Santa Monica. About a year later, he was hired as a Producer on Tony Hawk 3 – the highest rated game EVER on PS2 98! - and he was hooked from then on. After helping make several other Activision “extreme” sports games, Trey was hired by EA Canada to help make the original “skate.” He then popped over to help Design and Produce some MVP Baseball games – another dream come true – and later took on the role of Creative Director to help bring NBA JAM back and share it with a brand new generation of gamers – yet another dream come true. Here’s a fun EA Canada Tour Video he shot back then… when he had more hair   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTm3b1CR9E0

After a decade with EA Sports, Trey had the opportunity to join a scrappy little sci-fi studio in East Vancouver called Blackbird Interactive, where he helped bring Hardspace: Shipbreaker to life as the Studio Creative Director and then helped incubate several other games as the VP of New IP development. The awesome folks at NME were kind enough to interview me during his time at BBI, and more importantly take awesome pictures of Molly.
https://www.nme.com/features/boss-level-2023-trey-smith-blackbird-interactive-3425517

Now, Trey lives near family in his hometown of Tucson Arizona, with “C” and Molly, living his dream of making video games with his longest and bestest friend Eddie aka Ed aka ECHO and he couldn’t be happier.

ED FARIAS

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IT'S A SURPRISE!

We are currently over a year and change into the development of our first game. After several prototypes, some really good ones and some not so much, we are heading into “vertical slice” in May 2026. We couldn’t be more excited about what we’ve got cooking. Fresh but familiar. Killer gameplay oozing with innovation. Strong game loops. Meaty metagame. Compelling game world to explore and interesting characters to meet. Minute to learn, lifetime to master… you know the drill J

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Ed and Trey (and our redonkulously-talented “special guest” collaborators) are committed to donating a portion of our gross revenue towards causes that we are passionate about. Ed and Trey love People and we love Dogs and can’t wait to share pictures of us giving those really big checks to worthy causes and organizations and sharing those warm fuzzies with YOU and our community. More on this soooooooon!

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