Indie Preview: Horses - A Gem with Minimal Dialogue and Eerily Rudimentary Construction

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Indie Preview: Horses - A Gem with Minimal Dialogue and Eerily Rudimentary Construction
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Boutique developer-publisher Santa Ragione won the IGF Award for Best Narrative during GDC with its previous game, the wonderful Mediterranea Inferno, and Horses - developed by Andrea Lucco Borlera, seems like another gem. This one's decidedly quieter though, with minimal dialogue and an eerily rudimentary construction. Borlera cited Czech surrealists and Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek director of Poor Things and The Favourite, as inspirations to me out at GDC's Day of the Devs, with Horses playing out in the style of a deeply unsettling silent film

Boutique developer-publisher Santa Ragione won the IGF Award for Best Narrative during GDC with its previous game, the wonderful Mediterranea Inferno, and Horses - developed by Andrea Lucco Borlera, seems like another gem. This one's decidedly quieter though, with minimal dialogue and an eerily rudimentary construction .

Borlera cited Czech surrealists and Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek director of Poor Things and The Favourite, as inspirations to me out at GDC's Day of the Devs, with Horses playing out in the style of a deeply unsettling silent fil

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