Fantastic four
Each member of Sokpop explains one of their favourite creations
Tom van den Boogaart (
Grunn
)
Grunn
Having taken van den Boogaart two years to make, Grunn is not a typical Sokpop game, although its quiet, countryside setting does reprise that of several other titles in the collective’s catalogue. Wryly described as “a very normal gardening game”, this is anything but, with its eerie blurred focus and strangers watching your every move. The garden itself is a replica of van den Boogaart’s father’s plot. “I was visiting him a lot, and I was also watching Twin Peaks,” the developer recalls. “Those two blended into what Grunn eventually became. I was also interested to see what a scary Sokpop game would look like, because we’d never made anything scary.”