Get Inside A Monster’s Head With This Puzzle Game Announced For Project Morpheus

Lauren Keating, Tech Times 05 June 2015, 11:06 am

Your virtual reality experience is about to get really artistically weird.

Most VR games provide the type of realistic experience that gives the user the feeling of being fully immersed into the game. These games allow the player to feel like they are out in space, under the sea, and everywhere in between. But the first title announced for Sony's virtual reality headset, Project Morpheus, is putting player's inside a monster's head.

Talk about imagination. From indie game developers KO-OP Mode, Project's Morpheus' first title is a puzzle-adventure game called GNOG, where players navigate through a universe that is made up of monsters heads.

Within the universe, there are micro-worlds, each represented by another monster's head. Each of these worlds are unique and have their own personalities.

"The heads are totally unique, with different puzzles and soundscapes in each, to really emphasis that aspect of playful discovery," Saleen Dabbous, studio director at KO-OP writes in a PlayStation blog. "We've taken a lot of inspiration from games like Windosill and FEZ—which are great little sandboxes of exploration and wonder—as well as toys like Polly Pocket & Mighty Max, which encourage you to look at everyday objects a little differently (like when you see faces in a cloud, a park bench, a street sign...)."

The monster universe designed by Samuel Boucher can be described as a psychedelically vibrant dream world set in space that is filled with bright colors and enchanting art.

In this whimsical world, the player explores each head that is filled with secrets by solving puzzles and discovering along the way.

GNOG started as a 2D platform before the Montreal-based team decided to bring the monster's heads to life in the third dimension. After working on the game just one short year ago, GNOG was able to be developed thanks to the Sony Pub Fund program, a program that encourages indie developers to self-publish their titles on the PlayStation Network for no fees for patching.

While the game the first to be released for Project Morpheus, it will also be released for PS4 in 2016, and will be coming to Steam and iOS in the future.

Check out the trippy trailer for GNOG below.