Kotaku UK: Islamic influenced art and imagery has cropped up in games from Journey to Prince of Persia, but now a couple of game developers are out to prove that despite its conspicuous rarity in the medium, Islamic art lends itself brilliantly to game design.
The composer behind Journey, Austin Wintory, recently had a chance to revisit the classic game, just in time for its tenth anniversary.
My fav indie game ever, played this on ps4 and ps5. Too bad it does not have a plat trophy.
Jenova Chen told us about the development of the game.
Today, veteran game developers with experience on games like Journey, Skyrim, Spider-Man, Edith Finch, Ratchet & Clank and more, have come together to announce a brand new game studio, Gardens.
Concept artist has a very distinct style and if they can translate that into the game well this studio will be making some visually stunning games.
agreed. i really enjoyed reading this
+1 to the author. Its time to push aside all this ethnic/racist crap and be just humans ( who love to game).
Islamic art is indeed quite beautiful, and more games could benefit from showing it if only their developers weren't afraid to touch the Middle East (outside typical Iraq War environments) with a ten foot barge pole!
The problem is that many in the Middle East aren't tolerant of liberal artistic depictions of their culture, as the West are with their own, due to high levels of religious adherence (I don't mean extremists, but just pious conservatives).
Provided the Middle East follows the example of Turkey and secularises, I'm hoping their culture will become more welcoming to artistic representations, and thus that it will get more exposure in games.
Islamic art is so interesting and exotic looking. Prince of Persia has a little of that and that series was very fun to play and look at. :)