Followers of wonderful puzzle video games like Portal and The Witness will likely be glad to listen to that the upcoming polaroid puzzler Viewfinder attracts direct inspiration from these titles, particularly in the way it approaches the wedding of story and narrative. PCGamesN spoke to the group at Unhappy Owl Studios whereas at WASD 2023, and discovered all about how Viewfinder may very well be your subsequent puzzling obsession.
In accordance with builders Jacob Keane and Matt Stark, Viewfinder attracts key inspirations from a number of the greatest friends within the trade, with “the large inspirations issues like Portal, The Talos Precept, and The Witness,” in response to Stark.
A recreation all about difficult your notion each within the recreation and out, Viewfinder sees you utilizing a Polaroid-style digital camera to take footage and use them to reshape the world round you, amongst many different attention-grabbing perceptive methods.
“Viewfinder is about utopianism, searching for options, friendships, and sacrifices,” Stark tells us on the busy WASD present ground, including that the puzzle recreation’s growth has been “about looking for new methods to hyperlink the narrative themes with the gameplay and make it really feel cohesive, just like the tone of the narrative is cohesive with the tone of the gameplay as a result of loads of it’s fairly playful and light-hearted.”
Stark provides that the group desires to be “capable of discover these themes with out making it really feel like there’s a robust distinction between what the participant is doing and what’s taking place within the gameplay.”
Set for launch someday this yr, you possibly can wishlist Viewfinder on Steam proper now to be stored within the loop of its full launch.
Within the meantime, you’ll find loads of video games just like Viewfinder by testing our high picks for one of the best journey video games and greatest story video games, as each these genres usually have rather a lot in widespread with puzzlers.
Interview performed by Nat Smith at WASD 2023.
