Fumito Ueda and Eric Chahi Trace Wordless Game Storytelling Back to Another World
Pairing Ueda with the creator he names as an influence puts the wordless-game lineage on one stage, and places the conversation inside an event that frames games as the "tenth art" rather than a product category.
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Fumito Ueda and Eric Chahi appeared together at THE TENTH MOSAIC, a game event held September 23 at the Institut francais du Japon in Tokyo. The talk covered how games convey emotion without words; Chahi's Another World is cited as one of the works that shaped Ueda's approach. The event framed games as the "tenth art" and treated them as expression rather than business alone.
The event took place at the Institut francais du Japon in Tokyo and was themed on games as the "tenth art," a term the event site ties to European and US usage, alongside film as the "seventh art" and bande dessinee as the "ninth art." Chahi's Another World is described as an early example of the wordless story told through visuals and movement that is often noted in Ueda's own work, which includes ICO, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian. A 2023 book collecting interviews and development materials on Ueda provides another strand of the discussion.
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