Courtesy: House HouseĪnd like many indie games, and indie music too, the peculiar satisfaction of Untitled Goose Game does not lie in its simplicity alone. Made by smaller developers – Untitled Goose Game was made by a team of just four – indie games are, like indie music, often more minimal, more artistic, more childlike, more politically aware, and sometimes use their more basic technology nostalgically (as seen in the revival of 8- and 16-bit aesthetics in hits like Shovel Knight (2014), Undertale (2015) and The Messenger (2018)). This split is just as wide and as culturally loaded as the one that had emerged between indie music and mainstream pop and rock by the end of the 1980s. Indeed, Untitled Goose Game is one of the latest examples of what lies on the other side of a schism in the production, audiences and culture of videogames between ‘mainstream’ or ‘triple A’ blockbusters and indie games.
Most responses to the game revel in this simplicity, the refreshing bluntness of the protagonist and what it is out to do, some noting the difference to many other games in which the player is up to no good but with far grittier, more violent consequences.
The name is simple, the premise is simple, playing is simple – and it feels good to be bad.
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When the game was finally released on 20 September for PC, Mac and Nintendo Switch, it quickly topped the video game charts, entered the lexicon of social media memery, and was even profiled in The New York Times. (The title stuck ever since the developers rushed to submit their ‘Untitled’ work-in-progress at Texas games festival Fantastic Arcade in 2017.) The idea of a game in which a naughty goose waddles and honks its way through a lovely village, tormenting its residents all while accompanied by a flourish of richly virtuoso piano, proved an instant hit.
‘It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.’ This is all the blurb that’s needed on the website for a game that has become a phenomenon in recent weeks, one with an equally minimal name: Untitled Goose Game.
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