Old Man’s Journey: Making a Game about Life, Loss, and Hope

Our latest game Old Man’s Journey was born out of two main ideas. We wanted to make a game about wanderlust and we wanted to include the whole spectrum of human emotions into this game. Not only the positive ones like happiness and love -which are very common in games- but also the ones that are seen more negatively and not so often incorporated, like regret and loss. All of them are very important. They make us human and very complex beings in the end. So, we decided to send the players on an emotional trip throughout Old Man’s Journey. At...