The story behind the game

Who is Goalkeeper ED?

The person you see in goal is me, Eray Dinç.

As a child, I trained under the legendary goalkeeper Ilie Datcu. I almost became a goalkeeper myself. But when I earned a place at university, my family wanted me to take a different path. Life moved in another direction, yet one question never left me: What would my life have been like if I had become a goalkeeper?

Penalty Area is my answer to that question.

This time, I stepped into goal. The goalkeeping career I never got to pursue now continues in your pocket. Every shot I save is a small piece of the life I never lived.

I never became a professional goalkeeper in real life. But who knows? Maybe, thanks to your shots, I could become the goalkeeper who has saved the most shots in the world.

Penalty Area is not a story-driven game. As someone who creates games that tell stories, this is the first time I have made one that doesn't. Yet it carries a deeply personal story from my own life.

Eray Dinç
Eray Dinc Studio