{"id":20529,"date":"2025-10-20T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/out-of-words-crafting-gamings-most-unusual-love-story-from-clay-and-glue\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:37:52","slug":"out-of-words-crafting-gamings-most-unusual-love-story-from-clay-and-glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/out-of-words-crafting-gamings-most-unusual-love-story-from-clay-and-glue\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Words \u2013 crafting gaming\u2019s most unusual love story from clay and glue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most games want you to save the world. This stop-motion adventure wants you to hold someone\u2019s hand<\/p>\n<p>Stop-motion adventure Out of Words was one of the most striking reveals at this year\u2019s Summer Game Fest. While most games are built from code, Out of Words is made from clay, fabric, and glue: a love story literally crafted by hand that even caught the attention of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima (\u201cThe biggest praise we could imagine,\u201d game director Johan Oettinger says.)<\/p>\n<p>Oettinger dreamed of making a stop-motion video game since he was 12, when he first played 90s point-and-click claymation game The Neverhood. After years working across films, commercials and installation art, Out of Words became the project to merge these two lifelong passions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/oct\/20\/out-of-words-gaming-love-story-clay-stop-motion-preview-epic-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d2594c6838f8cec7475b85555f0f101af9474aa2\/534_59_2623_2099\/master\/2623.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=85e4ca6bd256d6790686f2580f50fb9a\" title=\"Out of Words \u2013 crafting gaming\u2019s most unusual love story from clay and glue\" \/>Most games want you to save the world. This stop-motion adventure wants you to hold someone\u2019s hand<br \/>\nStop-motion adventure Out of Words was one of the most striking reveals at this year\u2019s Summer Game Fest. While most games are built from code, Out of Words is made from clay, fabric, and glue: a love story literally crafted by hand that even caught the attention of Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima (\u201cThe biggest praise we could imagine,\u201d game director Johan Oettinger says.)<br \/>\nOettinger dreamed of making a stop-motion video game since he was 12, when he first played 90s point-and-click claymation game The Neverhood. After years working across films, commercials and installation art, Out of Words became the project to merge these two lifelong passions. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most games want you to save the world. This stop-motion adventure wants you to hold someone\u2019s hand Stop-motion adventure Out of Words was one of the most striking reveals at this year\u2019s Summer Game Fest. While most games are built from code, Out of Words is made from clay, fabric, and glue: a love story &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/out-of-words-crafting-gamings-most-unusual-love-story-from-clay-and-glue\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Out of Words \u2013 crafting gaming\u2019s most unusual love story from clay and glue<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}