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Soundtrack: Samorost 3 — When playing the flute becomes the journey
Blow the flute that fell from the sky, and the sounds of the world draw closer — in Amanita Design's Samorost 3, Tomáš Dvořák (Floex) made the music itself the tool you play with. Why does this roughly 88-minute album, woven from clarinet and live instruments, breathe in such perfect time with a wordless journey? Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take it apart through the lens of 'the verb of making a sound.'
Inside Jakub Dvorský's Philosophy — Dropping Words, Building a World You Can Touch
A study of Amanita Design founder Jakub Dvorský, read across primary interviews in Adventure Classic Gaming (2009), MCV/DEVELOP (2011), bounthavy (2020) and TouchArcade (2024). It traces the origin of his wordless design, his obsession with atmosphere and hand-drawn worlds, his aim to build 'an interactive toy' you keep playing rather than a puzzle you defeat, his dilemmas of kindness versus difficulty and commerce versus authorship, and the Czech animation and science-fiction he himself names as influences — grounded only in what he has said in public.
Amanita Design's cardboard craftsmanship and the puzzle game industry's largest showcase
Two highlights today: Amanita Design's Phonopolis, a 10-year handcrafted cardboard adventure released May 20; and Thinky Direct 2026 on May 28, which showcased 40+ puzzle games and launched the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase on Steam.
