Journey is an online game developed by thatgamecompany, but this game is like no other it challenges the normal conventional games we see today by being something so unique that the gaming experience is different for every player. The one main thing about this game is the fact it has no voices, no dialogue or text, a wordless game that tells a story through exploration of a empty destroyed landscape. This surreal open world intrigues the player into exploring while always seeing a distant mountain in the background. This game rather than words or text uses the curiosity of the player to pull them into a world in witch tells them a story though what you find and how you get to your destination. And unlike usual silent and wordless creations this game dose not rely on characters gesture and expression, as the character is simple and and is mainly shown in a third person view. This game tells its story through the land, the landscape is so vast and large that it makes you feel small and lost, so rather than showing these feeling through the character they have taken another approach and used the lands design to make the player feel as if they are the cloaked figure lost, its bringing the gamer into the game rather than like a book or film where you'd be watching events happen to developed characters.
This is a unique way of telling a wordless narrative that's interactive and could work for my project. Though I wouldn't be able to create the game I can plan the basis and create the art style taking into consideration how journey was successful.
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