{"id":100401,"date":"2019-09-18T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/feature_how_a_joke_hatched_gamings_most_horrible_goose"},"modified":"2019-09-18T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:00:00","slug":"feature-how-a-joke-hatched-gamings-most-horrible-goose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/18\/feature-how-a-joke-hatched-gamings-most-horrible-goose\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: How A Joke Hatched Gaming’s Most Horrible Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ever since it was first announced, Untitled Goose Game<\/a><\/strong> has enjoyed hugely positive reaction from all quarters – it’s a rare thing to get excited about merch for a game<\/a> we hadn’t even played at the time, but there’s something about this obnoxious goose and his stealthy slapstick antics which strikes a chord with us (and, it seems, a lot of other people too).<\/p>\n

Following a delay from earlier this year, the goose is honking to Switch this Friday and we were lucky enough to have Michael McMaster from Melbourne-based developer House House answer some of our questions about the goose, the game and its untitled name. Honk.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nintendo Life: How did the idea of controlling a horrible goose in a stealth-farce game come about? Have you had bad experiences with waterfowl in the past?<\/strong><\/p>\n

House House:<\/strong> We\u2019re from Melbourne, Australia, where geese aren\u2019t particularly common, so we weren\u2019t drawing from personal experience. Geese are just funny: in August 2016, Stuart posted a stock image of a goose<\/a> to our Slack and said we should make a game about it. This was a joke, but we riffed on how funny geese are for a while, and a few months later circled back around to the idea to take it seriously.<\/p>\n