HelenaP
March 23rd, 2008, 03:39 PM
The Graveyard's Ten-Minute Tale Of Death
By Chris Kohler
Tale of Tales, the Belgian indie developers currently hard at work on the very intriguing experimental game The Path, released a brief but very interesting little game today.
Called The Graveyard, it's a ten-minute scene that they describe as "more like an explorable painting than an actual game."
The gameplay, if you can call it that, is simple: You walk an old woman up a graveyard path to a bench in the distance. She sits. A scene takes place. When it's over, you lead her out of the graveyard.
The value here isn't the gameplay, it's the carefully crafted aesthetic experience and its (successful, in my case) attempt to draw an emotional response from the player.
You can download it for free (http://tale-of-tales.com/TheGraveyard/index.html) (PC and Mac) and try it for yourself if you like. When you're finished, my thoughts are below.
Rest of the story... (http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/03/the-graveyards.html)
By Chris Kohler
Tale of Tales, the Belgian indie developers currently hard at work on the very intriguing experimental game The Path, released a brief but very interesting little game today.
Called The Graveyard, it's a ten-minute scene that they describe as "more like an explorable painting than an actual game."
The gameplay, if you can call it that, is simple: You walk an old woman up a graveyard path to a bench in the distance. She sits. A scene takes place. When it's over, you lead her out of the graveyard.
The value here isn't the gameplay, it's the carefully crafted aesthetic experience and its (successful, in my case) attempt to draw an emotional response from the player.
You can download it for free (http://tale-of-tales.com/TheGraveyard/index.html) (PC and Mac) and try it for yourself if you like. When you're finished, my thoughts are below.
Rest of the story... (http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/03/the-graveyards.html)