The player moves around and stacks tiles of hand drawn art (clearly inspired by comics and graphic novels) and those actions then result in certain animations taking place to tell a story. Gorogoa, on the surface, is merely a puzzle game. Jason Roberts of Buried Signal (Image: Kotaku) I just wanted to make a big project that had lots of colorful drawings that I could do, so I was as much motivated by desire to do a big art project as I was to make a game, and then found a way to make those two things synergize.” I had long wanted to make a game, and I also wanted to make a visual art project. That proved that something could be done. “It was a successful game, and it was made by a very small number of people, and I didn't even think of that as possible. “I think it was when Braid came out, that made a big impression on me a lot of people,” Roberts said.
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Discoverability hadn’t quite taken a turn for the worse yet, and the indie renaissance was in full effect, as numerous developers gained inspiration from Jonathan Blow’s Braid (among others). I didn't want to go through the whole career path, career grind, of working for a big game company.”Īs Roberts noted, when he decided to start working on Gorogoa in 2012, the marketplace was different than it is now. I didn't think it was possible for one person to make a game.
“But they never seemed, the designs never seemed too practical. “I had been designing games kind of in my head since I was a teenager, I think,” he told GameDaily. And for the most part, the bulk of Gorogoa was created by Roberts himself.
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He quit his job as a software engineer in 2012 to pursue his vision. He didn’t go to design school or team up with his buddies to work on a project from his basement or garage. He’s new to the scene, but he’s in his 40s. Jason Roberts is not your prototypical game developer. Gorogoa: How Jason Roberts' Grappling With Reality May Have Created A New Genre Roberts talks about how he got into games, the state of indie development, and his next project being a conceptual relative of Gorogoa.
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