![]() ![]() ![]() There’s fan art of the goose and jokes about what its incessant honking must really mean. On Nintendo’s digital marketplace, Untitled Goose Game even held the top spot on the Switch games sales chart the week after its release, beating out a new entry in Nintendo’s own hugely popular The Legend of Zelda franchise to get there. In its short life so far, Untitled Goose Game has found an audience with everyone from model-turned-entrepreneur and Twitter maven Chrissy Teigen to Blink-182 frontman Mark Hoppus to a variety of international news outlets to PETA, in addition to tens of thousands of players. ![]() Its fans have all been won over by the quirky puzzle game’s endearingly evil antihero: a cunning waterfowl that just wants to cause a ruckus for a laugh. That’s the most basic pleasure at the heart of Untitled Goose Game, a video game from Australian developer House House that launched in late September and quickly earned widespread acclaim. Or rather, the catharsis of becoming a chaotic goose, if only virtually. ![]() Make your way around town, from peoples’ back gardens to the high street shops to the village green, setting up pranks, stealing hats, honking a lot, and generally ruining everyone’s day.Sometimes, all it takes to unite people is the shrill honking of a chaotic goose. Untitled Goose Game is a slapstick-stealth-sandbox, where you are a goose let loose on an unsuspecting village. It’s a lovely morning in the village and you are a horrible goose. The game’s unusual name came from a last-minute decision in preparing the title as an entry for a games festival, and since then stuck. Inspired by Super Mario 64 and the Hitman series, House House worked on combining stealth mechanics with a lack of violence to create humorous in-game scenarios.Īfter a positive reception to their initial trailer, the developers recreated their trailer’s piano soundtrack to play different sections in reaction to in-game events. This sparked a conversation about geese, but the team put the idea aside for a few months until they realized that it had the potential to be a fun game. Untitled Goose Game originated from a stock photograph of a goose that a House House employee posted in the company’s internal communications. ![]()
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