We wanted to squeeze as much emotion as possible out of these people without facial expressions, so everything has to be evoked with body language. The animation specifically takes a lot of inspiration from slapstick and pantomime-with big, over the top reactions that are impossible to miss. The whole visual style of the game is designed to be nice and clean, very readable and approachable. How did the team come up with the animation style? I will say it’s a weird thing to explain when your very not-online hairdresser asks you “oh, what game are you working on?” It’s become one of the best things about the game, and I’m so glad we stuck with it. This more or less happened by accident at first, we just needed something to put on a video we were submitting to a festival. Read on! What’s the story behind the title of the game? Stuart Gave us the lowdown on the curious title, the game mechanics, and dream crossovers.
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There’s also art from Kalonica Quigley and additional UI programming from Cherie Davidson. The iconic sound effects were made by Em Halberstadt, and Dan Golding designed the music. Also within House House is Jake Strasser, largely responsible for the design of levels and environments, Nico Disseldorp who does all the programming, and Michael McMaster who mostly works on art direction and UI. We chatted with Stuart Gillespie-Cook, who mostly works on animation. The team at House House shares roles a lot, and so the game was predominantly designed collaboratively by four people. Everything that happens in the game is very low stakes (the goose doesn’t get involved in political scandals, or drive a car off a ramp etc.), but there’s a lot of room for comedic performance in doing things like stealing clothes off a washing line and dumping them in a pond.
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It feels a bit like playing the videogame version of an old cartoon, complete with reactive soundtrack.
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Oh, boy, do we have an extra super horrible Indie Game Spotlight exclusive for you today! We’re talking, of course, of Untitled Goose Game, a slapstick simulator, where you play a goose hassling a town full of people who would very much like you to stop hassling them, please.
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Indie Game Spotlight: Untitled Goose Game