Florence is a game about love from the designer behind Monument Valley
Late last year, Annapurna — the film production company behind movies like Her and American Hustle — announced that it was getting into games with a new interactive division, with a slate that included the next release from Ken Wong, lead designer on the original Monument Valley. (Wong had just recently set out to launch his own studio, called Mountains.) Now Wong is finally ready to reveal the studio’s first release: Florence, a visual novel about relationships and love. While it may look quite a bit different than the impossible architecture Wong is known for, the two games share at least a few ideals in common. “It’s designed for an audience that doesn’t play games a lot,” says Wong, “and maybe feels some trepidation about playing…
