The setting of that world inspired the making of this game. It was a story about a man who pilots the moon around and his long-distance relationship with his family. The original idea was based on one of the student animation films made by Beidi years ago. What were your inspirations for the design of the game? Feedback design also plays a crucial part in this, as we combine different animations, effects and SFX in order to make sure players know what to do next, or whether they are on the right puzzle-solving track. Each player will have a very personal understanding of the game, and we want people to be able to interpret the mystery of the game in their own way.Īlso, we need to really think about all the other elements in the game, like UI design, visual clues, mouse states we need to think how will they function in order to deliver the right message to the player, all without text. We hope it leaves individual players enough room to let their imaginations run free. We tried our best to animate all the characters, and to edit the cinematic together with the music in order to deliver the exact emotion we’d like our players to feel. What design challenges did you encounter in making a wordless game? Writing dialog is also not our biggest strength, so making a game that has no need to apply localization is definitely a better choice for us.

Last but not least, as a small team we have a very, very limited budget. Neither of these two works has dialogue, yet they can still move me deeply. It is the universal language we all share, like one of my favorites, the Oscar-winning animated film The House of Small Cubes by Kunio Kato, and The Arrival, a picture-only graphic novel by Australian artist Shaun Tan. However, we can all understand emotions by looking at characters’ facial expressions and movement. Sometimes the meaning behind a text might be lost in translation. Luna The Shadow Dust is a totally wordless game, without spoken or written dialogue. We caught up with studio co-founder Beidi Guo to find out how the game was made, what it was inspired by, and what the development experience has been like.Īlso read our interview with the game’s publisher, Application Systems Heidelberg.

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