Press kit

Walking Ideas is a one-person independent game studio, made possible by its founder's wife and close friends, all great game minds in their own right. It makes games for players who want to feel something, and to keep thinking about it afterward.

The studio believes a video game can be as powerful and moving as a novel or a film, and often more so. A reader or a viewer watches a story from the outside. A player stands inside it and makes the choices, so a game can give people experiences they could never have any other way.

Games can also change how we see the world. They take us to places we couldn't yet imagine, and let us see for a while through someone else's eyes. Made with care, they build empathy, curiosity and tolerance, which the world needs a great deal of right now. The studio's first two games come at this from different sides: Oshiro, a calm puzzle game painted in ink and watercolor, and Rises and Falls, a near-future roguelike narrative seen through the eyes of a companion android.

[Long Oshiro description: the stacking mechanic, the old man and the zen stories told as comics, the three modes, and the 2005 Flash origin.]