The game director Oguz (Oz) Guvenc was very passionate about playing and making games since he was 5 years old. His first computer was a Commodore 64, and he made simple games on Basic following coding books and his older brother's directions. Due to the notion at the time that game design is equal to your coding skills, he got disappointed in the dryness of the process and lost his hopes for becoming a game designer.

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In his adult life, as a science teacher, he decided to teach his students how to make games, and over time realized that there was much more to game development than just programming. He recaptured and fell in love with his childhood dream of making the most beautiful game that no one was making, he started taking courses in game development and design, and building prototypes. He combined a novel he started writing in high school named "Non-word Places" and his old AD&D story of Goa to conjure the basis for Strings of Ambivalence. The game is heavily inspired by Oz's great affection for Trine and Trine-2 in its play style, and Dragon Age series in its RPG elements, story-rich narrative, and the power of choice in gameplay.

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He worked on game story and character designs, and world building in 2015-2016. When Oz realized that the plans for the initial game (taking place 450 years after the tribes moved through the portal, and encompassing the whole world of Goa as an open world) were too large to be accomplished by a single developer, he started writing a new story featuring the arrival of the tribes to Goa, with playable characters reduced to 3 from 6, and instead of an open world, featuring "paths of choice". He created a prototype as an isometric "Diablo Style" game using this story line, but was not convinced that his vision was captured through this genre. During 2017-2018 Oz started to realize how vast the Unity Assetstore had grown and that he did not have to code and model the whole game by himself. Focusing on mastering advanced assets instead of coding from scratch, Oz was able to create a 2.5D side-scrolling RPG prototype of the Strings, which convinced him of the fidelity of the direction of the project to his true vision.

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During 2018 Oz revised his second story-line about settlers (featuring three playable characters and all six tribes) and decided to scale down his game's scope one more time to feature a single character and a more linear story line. The first game's story takes place 75 years after the colonials arrive at Goa, just before the dawn of what later will be called the Okrosi War.

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Oz started working with his wife Nazli during the summer of 2017, who is acting as a cloth designer for the game. Nazli is solely responsible for the beautiful and rich array of fashion in daily clothing and armor featured in Strings. She is very well versed in Marvelous Designer and is learning Zbrush. Together they released an announcement trailer that was featured in DreamHack Austin in summer 2018, showing off the development of the first game up until that point. The beautiful voice over in the trailer was produced by Michael Pavlich.

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Oz and Nazli have set up an ambitious goal of releasing the first game on 02.02.2020, as the numbers of the date almost exactly match with the symmetrical symbolism in the game's character alignment system of Virtue.Discipline.Ego.Rebellion.

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Following the first game, Chase Tail Games plans to revisit the second Strings concept with three playable characters and semi-open world in a 2.5D side-scrolling game engine. Ultimately, Oz's dream is to go back to his original huge open world featuring the entire three continents of Goa, with six Ambivalent player characters, and 450 years of written Goa history to back up a splendid story.

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