MrDrNose and the influence of his life experiences on the game
As far as I know, Maxim was born in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan), and his favorite movie was Borat.
Before creating his games, which made him a wealthy man, he lived quite poorly because he did not have enough money to upgrade his computer. Most of the time he just played gmod and loved the source engine.
That same Ariral race and Argemia appeared long before his main game. Initially, the Arirals came to him in dreams when he was 12-14 years old. Perhaps they were the very same reed people mentioned by the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin:
"Is Kazakhstan near you? What if the Kazakhs poisoned the wind? They could totally poison the wind! Quick, close the window right now: the wind is poisoned!" He was being completely serious—he was terrified and started pacing the room. "Damn Kazakhs poisoned the wind, how am I supposed to go out? That's exactly how it is, I know it for sure. I know they have reed people. They have Lake Balkhash, and reeds and bulrushes grow there in massive quantities. And reed people live there, people who never come out, they only breathe through a straw." Then he thought about it some more and said, "And in the middle of Lake Balkhash, there is a huge island where a giant, colossal cat lives, whom they all worship." (…) He says, "Damn, reeds! Reed people are everywhere, what are we going to do? They could launch an invasion! That's it—we're doomed then! If the reed people come out, they'll come at us with their cat! And the cat is huge, three meters tall!"
These are the "proto-arirals". Now how will you live with the fact that your alien race is a reed people with cat-like features who hail from Kazakhstan?
