Greenlight Highlight | The Artist

Title: The Artist
Developer: Motoda Media
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What type of game is it?

Puzzle Adventuer

What’s the 30 second elevator pitch?

Escape from an artist’s artwork by solving puzzles hidden throughout the painting as you explore it in a first person perspective.

What do we like most about it?

The real joys of Myst, The Witness, Talos Principle et cetera, comes from the combination of deep, highly visual environments and the puzzles that justify their exploration. The Artist may not have the photo-realism of the Talos Principle, or the mysterious setting of Myst, but it does feature a simple, minimalistic art style on an map with a whole bunch of small, contrasting areas. Each of these little areas all seem to be highly contrasting one another, enough that you’ll likely find yourself remembering your way around the small island due to the landmarks and stark colours.

Importantly the game is going to support VR headsets soon; this is one of the genres that I feel the technology will really work well with, so it’s great to see a game of this ilk making the move.

When’s it due?

The Artist is set to launch in November of this year, when it does it will do so for Windows PC.