Developer Sad Owl Studios
Publisher Thunderful Games
Format PC, PS5
Origin Various
Release 2023
The first time we pick up one of Viewfinder’s pictures and place it down in the world, it feels like magic. The contents of the black-and-white Polaroid immediately pop into three dimensions, cutting a slice out of the level geometry that was previously there and allowing us to step inside a cross-section of world that, just a few seconds ago, was held in our hands. It’s a remarkable trick, but one for which we’ve been prepared since late 2019, when game director Matt Stark tweeted a few short videos of a prototype he was toying with, between classes for his computer science degree at Dundee’s Abertay University. Those tweets blew up, one of them attracting nearly half a million views, allowing him to turn this student side-project into a full game with a team of up to 20 developers – itself a kind of magic, surely.
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