Three years, a Kickstarter campaign, and over $21,000 in donations later, Wandersong is finally out into the world. Billed as a musical adventure game, it borrows heavily from the artistic and thematic stylings of cartoons like Steven Universe and Over the Garden Wall to craft a story about saving a dying world through positivity, acceptance, and, most importantly, songs. After all, what more can you expect from a game where the primary way you interact with your environment is through singing.
I spoke with the developer behind the project, Greg Lobanov, about the influence and inspiration behind such a unique game. It all started with a bike trip in 2014, 5,000 miles across the United States for over five months.
“I slept outside, faced harsh conditions and made friends with a lot of different people in a lot of different places. For me, it was a lesson in what one can accomplish with optimism and a reassurance in the goodness of humanity,” Lobanov wrote of the excursion on Wandersong’s Kickstarter.
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