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The designer of Sopa: The Tale of the Stolen Potato explains how his Colombian background informs the forthcoming game\nSopa (the Spanish for \u201csoup\u201d) is a game about a young boy who goes to fetch a potato for his grandma, then stumbles upon a magical world at the back of the food cupboard. \u201cThe pantry seems to get longer and longer,\u201d explains creative director Juan Casta\u00f1eda. \u201cAnd when you\u2019re about to grab the sack of potatoes, you get pulled into this other world of fantasy and magical realism. So you go on all these adventures, and meet all these different characters, but at the end of the day, you\u2019re really just trying to get that potato for your grandma\u2019s soup.\u201d
\nAs video game quests go, this is fabulously mundane and makes a refreshing change from rescuing princesses in castles and saving lands in peril. However you soon realise there is more to it all than just lost spuds. \u201cThere\u2019s this other layer to the story, and that\u2019s what the game is really about,\u201d says Casta\u00f1eda. \u201cEach time you come back to the kitchen, things will have changed in unexpected ways, and each time you go off on an adventure, you\u2019re going to be picking up these hints about a mysterious traveller who went through this way long ago.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The designer of Sopa: The Tale of the Stolen Potato explains how his Colombian background informs the forthcoming game Sopa (the Spanish for \u201csoup\u201d) is a game about a young boy who goes to fetch a potato for his grandma, then stumbles upon a magical world at the back of the food cupboard. \u201cThe pantry …<\/p>\n