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Monument Valley at 10
It’s 10 years since Monument Valley became the must-have mobile game, with its intensively detailed levels and beautiful aesthetic and sound. We visited ustwo games to to uncover its story and find out what happens next
It’s a typical tech space, with a quiet ambience of concentration and creativity, filled with oversized plants and colourful shelves scattered with the detritus of modern culture, from plastic toys to stacks of board games. The end result had a pixel-perfect axonometric aesthetic that not only went hard on its references to Dutch master artist and printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher, but also dug deep into classic video game design, going right back to early arcade machines and 8-bit titles. As mentioned, Monument Valley simultaneously harked back to early computer graphics and fine art, yet it also introduced a clean, minimalist style that has proved incredibly influential, especially in the indie gaming sphere.
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