Machinarium
If your like me, (and I know you are) then you love robots. You also probably really love very finely crafted experiences that center around robots. If this is the case, then you are sure to love Machinarium. It is one of the most beautiful and meticulously created games I have played in a long while.
CGSociety has a very nice interview with Jakub Dvorský who was a chief designer for the game. He says:
“We felt we needed something warm with visible human touch in it to create a contrast to that robotic world that the character goes into, so we came up with an idea of hand-drawn backgrounds which are scanned and finished in Photoshop. Also the animations are mostly hand-animated frame by frame, the sounds effects live recorded and the music full of live instruments.”
The amount of time necessary to create a game in that manner is rather insane. It could be so easy (and must be terribly tempting) to use more “cost effective” methods for creating the art and animation, yet it is this carefully hand-crafted approach that gives the game it’s character and sets it apart from most everything else. It is really a marvel to consider the time and energy that went into the creation of this game.
Check out the interview, and please be sure to check out Machinarium as well.
