I’ve never seen a game like Jason Roberts’ Gorogoa, and that’s a good thing. It is an indie title where you play with illustrated art panels, like the frames of a comic book.
You are looking for a magical creature, and you solve pieces of the puzzle by fitting two different but related panels together.It’s a like a paper origami figure that you unfold in a 3D space. You navigate the storybook illustrations as though they are 3D spaces.
The game is being shown at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) event, and it was designed, developed, and illustrated by Jason Roberts, whose studio is called Buried Signal. It will be published by Annapurna Interactive.
It has taken a long time to develop, partly because Roberts drew all of the illustrations himself. And he made it so that the camera would zoom in on something when you click on it.
Image Credit: Annapurna
“I wanted them to feel magical like 3D spaces,” he said in an interview with GamesBeat. “You can see a tower in the distance and you can click on it. You fly through space to reach that tower. There are no physical constraints on the space in the panel, and I wanted the player to feel that.”
Roberts has worked on the game for more than five years, since he created thousands…
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