Bitmob had a chance to speak with Fotonica's ambitious creators, Pietro Righi Riva and Nicolò Tedeschi. They comprise Santa Ragione, a two-man indie team based in Milan, Italy, that has dabbled in board games and celebrates the expressive medium of indie games.
Game Designer Pietro Righi Riva shares his thoughts on how game design needs to evolve in the first installment of In Design.
Sometimes it seems like designers and developers are reluctant to "say something" with their games. It would be great to see more games address complex themes and ideas in a thoughtful way.
Yup. I definitely think we're slowly on the verge of that happening. Now it's just a matter of just how far devs will go with the subject matter, and how they'll craft the gameplay around it.
Definitely. I just hope it really is integrated into the game and not just a message with a game loosely wrapped around it.
This idea here is what game designers should be looking towards. I went through a time of fatigue where all nostalgia shed away and I realized I was just playing better versions of games I have already played, just with different stories. I had to get over it, but what if games evolved faster? What if they had messages, like movies usually have good messages now.
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Fotonica seems pretty similar to Boson X. You should try that one too. I'll have to give Fotonica a whirl since I was having fun with Boson X a while back.
Haven't these games been out for months already?
Or were they only out on console?
Pocket Gamer: Santa Ragione has brought its wire-frame first-person auto-running platformer FOTONICA to Android today.
