Adriaan de Jongh and Sylvain Tegroeg did not necessarily set out to create a new genre. But, in some ways, that's exactly what the duo did when they released
Hidden Folks
in 2017. Hidden object games have been around for decades - they've existed well before computers, when people searched for objects in paintings and printed drawings - but
Hidden Folks
was a distinct step forward. De Jongh calls
Hidden Folks
a "searching" game; objects are certainly hidden, but the game is more than just spotting objects.
"We wanted to make a very playful, interactive game where our focus was invoking this curiosity for these little worlds and the little …
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