Sundry Sunday: The Untitled Goose Programme

Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades.

It isn’t always easy finding things for this weekly feature. Sometimes it’s backed up a month, sometimes though something gets scheduled just a couple of days after it premieres, and I have to scrape the barrel a bit. But not this time. Oh no.

Remember Untitled Goose Game? Seven years ago I made a Metafilter post about the first WIP promo video, but the game itself is only five years old. Since its 2019 release, there’s been celebratory essays, philosophy essays, desktop toys, a very popular “review” from videogamedunkey, and more wonderful articles and reviews from, among other places, the New Yorker and The Guardian.

Back in 2021, developer House House considered making an animated series about the Goose and its village. Nothing came of it, but they did make a four-minute proof-of-concept animation, and it’s wonderful. Please allow your day to be brightened, and moistened, once again, by the Goose:

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