The game becomes more complex as we learn more about the story it presents. I managed to collect one-third of the photos in the game (judging from the total number of slots) by playing during my spare time throughout one week. News China to resume new game approvals after three-month suspension, report says It also wasn’t immediately clear how the photos and scenes in the cube connected with each other. Photo screenshot by KrASIA.Īs much as I love the way that the developers tell the story using images instead of text, the fragmented storytelling did make it more difficult to understand what was going on. Found photos, now in black and white, are hung in the background behind the cube. The cube represents the mind of a veteran who is suffering from PTSD, and players need to navigate the debris of his memory-in an abandoned factory, on a secluded island, or on a yacht-to piece together missing objects and find a way out of the cube.Ī textless story is presented along the way, in the form of photos scattered across the 50 scenes.
“Since everything happens inside a cube, it is clear that players are trapped, and the story is about breaking out and finding true freedom,” the developer duo from Optillusion told KrASIA through an email interview. The pair started to explore how they can marry the technique with storytelling and visual media in 2018, when they were freshmen at NYU. In the video, different visual modules are displayed on each face of a cube at the same time. Gif courtesy of Optillusion.Ĭhen and Zhuo took inspiration from a video demonstration of a visual technique called stencil buffering.
By connecting two halves of a truck across scenes, players solve the puzzle and move forward in the game. Then, the trailer can carry on and lead us to the next scene. Once realizing the truck in the toy box on the left side of the cube shares the same color and size as the broken trailer in the snowy outdoor space on the right, players need to rotate the cube so the two sections “click” together. Take this truck at the beginning of the game as an example. In Moncage, this is expressed in multidimensional terms.
#Gorogoa meaning crack#
Players tap and drag the cube around, and need to have a sharp pair of eyes to identify objects that look like they could connect across different spaces on the cube, then align them from a certain perspective in order to crack the puzzle and move on to the next chapter or space.Ĭhen Yijia and Zhuo Dong, the two founders of the indie game studio, were replicating the feeling of creating meaning out of separate objects that come together to form a complete image. Each side of the cube leads to a new space where a part of Moncage’s story takes place. Scenes where these elements interact are accessed through a cube, five sides of which are gateways to new physical spaces that exist in someone’s memory. For those who enjoy the innovative optical perspectives, beautiful narratives of adventure, and clean, stylish aesthetics in puzzle games like Gorogoa, Monument Valley and Mekorama, Moncage may be the next exciting title to look out for.ĭeveloped by Optillusion, an indie studio founded by two recent graduates of New York University, Moncage-“montage in a cage”-puts players in the story of a father, a son, and a lighthouse.
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