If you've played ThatGameCompany's Journey and traversed its shimmering sands with your pensive little shroud-person until the bittersweet end, there's a good chance you were online when you did and that you traveled at least some of the distance with another pensive little shroud-person just like yourself.
The composer behind Journey, Austin Wintory, recently had a chance to revisit the classic game, just in time for its tenth anniversary.
My fav indie game ever, played this on ps4 and ps5. Too bad it does not have a plat trophy.
Jenova Chen told us about the development of the game.
Today, veteran game developers with experience on games like Journey, Skyrim, Spider-Man, Edith Finch, Ratchet & Clank and more, have come together to announce a brand new game studio, Gardens.
Concept artist has a very distinct style and if they can translate that into the game well this studio will be making some visually stunning games.
Interesting way of titling this article.
That's a very difficult question. It depends on what gaps the game creates or encourages for the personal creation of meaning. Most of the time, I'd consider gamers as competitors or "players" more than artists.
I think that to some degree, a technical game like Street Fighter has an art to it, and real masters are probably partly artists, but they're also "players" and I'm not sure if you can really separate the two despite their intrinsic difference. Just like you can't separate the mathematics of game programming and development from the actual creative process and result manifest in the game itself.
Interactivity is something that's very hard to subsume into art as well. For me it really depends on how that interactivity resonates with and plays off of the music and the visuals. I think the interactivity of Journey is deeply artistic for instance.
1.) Yes
2.) Depends on the gamer.
It is expressing human creativeness so yup. A lot of people just think of art as a painting and a sculpture but there are many things that fall into it like music, theater etc.
Awesome title:)