jump around a giant, imponderable world with affecting characters, at first alone. discone is a climbing game, a 3d platformer, a massively-multiplayer online experience to share with friends. discone is a game about jumping.

there are no goals in this videogame.<br><br>discone is an exploration of videogames beyond gameness: beyond designed rules and designer-defined objectives. we, as designers, create a physics, a space, some characters. as players, you create the play.<h2 class="bb_tag" >move your expressive character-bodies around an online world</h2>to explore and pull at the videogame's seams, left there intentionally or unintentionally. we believe that a novel, intuitively explorable, and experientially understood movement system, situated in a space, &amp; connected online has infinite potential, and we are excited to explore this possibility space with you.<h2 class="bb_tag" >open exploration and discovery</h2>the ability to pick a point on the horizon but without any combat or external conflict. the casual socialization and community of online web games in the context of a challenge-oriented, self-directed 3d platformer. the exciting stress of embodying and manipulating an alien avatar along not just a path, but an infinity of player-selected paths. are those mountains even climbable? (they definitely are)<h2 class="bb_tag" >embracing simplicity and childlike wonder</h2>to seek the territory outside the boundaries of traditional art &amp; its received aesthetic norms. we are inspired by paint and are exploring pixel-based art (all screen art is pixel art) as an impressionism, as something beyond chunky, low-resolution pixels. our approach to 3d-rendering accepts &amp; embraces the glitchiness, the inherent flatness of polygons &amp; deformed meshes, the seams &amp; rough edges.<h2 class="bb_tag" >discone</h2>is a game with no bosses and no ladders.

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