2026-07-13 · designer-study
Inside Jason Roberts's Philosophy — Turning the Space Outside the Frame into a Playground
A study of Jason Roberts — who made Gorogoa, drawing and coding almost all of it alone — drawn strictly from his own GDC talk and interviews: a philosophy of the 'frame' born from an abandoned comic, the obsession of a visual acrostic that gives everything two faces, the failure of a man who thought he couldn't finish anything, the commerce-versus-authorship dilemma that meaning must be real, and influences from Escher to a puzzle book (Maze) he never solved. It closes with one paragraph reading him as a designer who believes in the outside of the frame.
