“There’s no inventory or anything annoying like that, but it is a puzzle game,” he continued. You become a team to work together to solve puzzles.” It’s sort of creating that buddy movie feeling to it. So you become his ghost giant who’s there. You are actually a player inside the game. So the idea was that the main character Louis actually does see the player. So it feels like you and are kind of becoming a team together. “He’s saying what he’s thinking, what he’s doing. “I liked the way a lot of games like Old Monkey Island games, when you play the character, he’s always talking in a way, to you, to the screen,” Lyngeled noted. For Lyngeled, it’s an homage to the old point-and-click adventure titles, but adapted for VR.
You control the world and environments with bit ghost hands and are completely invisible to everyone except for a lonely little boy named Louis, whom you are tasked with protecting. Ghost Giant is a narrative-driven puzzle game built for VR. at the same time, we were really good at doing those games like Stick it to the Man, Flipping Death, both adventure games.” So I thought, if I was going to do a VR game, I really wanted to do something that’s quite close to you like a little puppet set, very cozy. “The first time I tried Oculus… I thought it was really cool how there’s such close parallax. You thought it would kind of be cool watching Lawnmower Man and all that stuff, you know? Klaus Lyngeled (Image: Twitter) “You feel like, ‘Wow this is actually different.’ I went through the whole ’90s era of VR, which was horrible. It’s always really cool when there is a new medium,” Lyngeled explained to me after I played Ghost Giant at E3.
“I’ve been working with games for 20 years now.
Zoink’s VR project was the result of nostalgia and a fascination for what VR could be through that particular lens. VR has not been that profitable for many developers yet, but some indie studios are banking on the creative rewards inherent in embracing the technology. He’s partnered with Sony on PSVR-exclusive Ghost Giant, which doesn’t have a firm release date but is likely shipping early next year. Zoink CEO Klaus Lyngeled’s next step is into the world of virtual reality. With well-received games like Fe and Flipping Death, and the creation of the Thunderful Group which now serves as the parent company to both Zoink and Steamworld Dig studio Image & Form Games, the developer is poised for growth. Swedish studio Zoink Games is coming into its own.
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