Monument Valley lead designer Ken Wong joins us this week to discuss the current state of the video game industry and video games as an art form. We speak in depth about the process behind creating Monument Valley, and some of the challenges he and his team at UsTwo faced along the way. This eventually leads us down the rabbit hole of Ken’s creative influences, many of which are classic films.

GUEST LINKS:

usTwo Blog: http://ustwo.com/blog/

Ken’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/kenwongart

Ken’s Website: http://www.kenart.net/

Monument Valley: http://www.monumentvalleygame.com/

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SHOW NOTES:

Journey: http://amzn.to/18AjjZg

Steam: http://www.steampowered.com

GameLoading: Rise of the Indies: http://www.gameloading.tv/

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com

Ash’s Ghost in the Shell Project: http://www.gits2501.com/

Alien: http://amzn.to/14KoJ1w

The Art of Alice Madness Returns: http://amzn.to/1613N7U

Reddit thread: http://redd.it/2sbi17

Solaris: http://amzn.to/1liNjHF

Children of Men: http://amzn.to/15Mts3i

Leon the Professional: http://amzn.to/18Am1ho

QUOTE

People are humans, and we enjoy beauty. We enjoy the synthesis of art, and animation, and music, and what happens when you interact with that. All those details matter.

-Ken Wong

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