Journey The Game
Journey is an indie adventure game from the game company “Thatgamecompany”. It is a successor of the company’s previous games, Flow and Flower. The story focuses on a robed figure that has only one goal, to reach the mountain.
Journey is a no-dialogue narrative game that tells a mesmerising story through visuals and gestures. As a player, we’d understand completely the emotions of the character and the world through visual cutscenes and the atmospheric music that suits very well to the world. In Journey, the world can be our greatest friend, yet also our greatest enemy. It manipulates player’s emotion through the fluid movement of the main character running and flying around the world to express elation. It also manipulates our perspective towards the world as an enemy when we see our main character struggles to get through a snowstorm. These elements are what makes a great visual storytelling.
Journey is a perfect example of narrative storytelling through visual and it is my main inspiration for my short-animation project. My project will be avoiding dialogue but focusing more on how to tell a story through music, sound, and gestures.
