Your cursor turns into an omnidirectional arrow when you hover over the original panel, which currently shows the window the boy was staring out of and the city beyond it. The tiny panel in the middle of your screen now becomes a two-by-two grid of panels, and this is the space in which you play Gorogoa. With a hand-crafted game like Gorogoa, that means tacking on months or years of development time. Make one tweak, and you have to redesign the whole chapter. “The changes have rippling effects, because everything fits together so carefully,” he said. “It’s not about infinite polish, it’s about me constantly making significant changes.” At various points along the way, Roberts has scrapped large, completed sections of the game. “I’ve never been a perfectionist,” Roberts said of the game’s elongated path to the finish line. Roberts has been working on Gorogoa for over seven years. He painstakingly put together the puzzles, in which seemingly disparate objects and places across different scenes are made to meld together as if by magic. He drew the game’s gorgeous, intricate artwork in pencil.
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Gorogoa, released on December 14 for Windows, iOS, and Switch, was created almost in its entirety by Jason Roberts, a 43-year-old former software engineer.
I was mesmerized, I didn’t want to stop, and once I was done with the brief demo, I had to know more about it.
Once I started playing, the cacophony of PAX disappeared. I actually made a complete circuit around the PC before I saw it, so unassuming was the little stand and so packed was the convention floor. When I heard it was nearing its release, and would be at PAX West this year, I decided this was my moment to get acquainted with Gorogoa, and I wandered up into the sixth floor of the Seattle convention center, snaking through the vast maze of tiny indie game booths until I found its small demo area.
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