Journey

thatgamecompany

Co-Founder, Executive Producer, Creative Designer

Design Focus

• Can an online multiplayer console game leave players with a renewed sense of humanity?

• Anonymous multiplayer as emotional architecture

• Environmental storytelling without dialogue, allowing interpretation and deeper emotional connection

• Pacing through spatial rhythm

Players encounter one another without names, chat, or explicit coordination.

Connection emerges through movement and proximity.

Communication is reduced to tone and gesture.

Meaning forms through shared traversal.

Progress is measured not by conquest but by ascent — physical, emotional, and symbolic.

Influence

Journey demonstrated that minimalism and anonymity could create deep emotional resonance in multiplayer spaces. Its reception expanded the mainstream understanding of what games could evoke and how they could connect players without explicit communication.