{"rewrite":{"id":"r_1c3e5c845119f14fcbbc9342","clusterId":"c_98cac7a0f7df5ab83e65a5ea","slug":"ueda-and-chahi-discuss-a-words-free-approach-to-game-worlds-at-tokyo-talk","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Ueda And Chahi Discuss A Words-Free Approach To Game Worlds At Tokyo Talk","summary":"At The Tenth Mosaic, held at the Institut francais de Tokyo on September 22 and 23, Eric Chahi and Fumito Ueda spoke on September 23. Ueda said he first played the Super Famicom version of Chahi's Another World as a university student and cleared it with a friend's help, taking from it the idea that it is okay to make a world for the world's sake rather than a world for the game. Chahi said a colleague urged him to play ICO after Heart of Darkness. Both described their words-free style as something they had no choice but to do.","whyItMatters":"The talk puts a direct line between Another World and ICO's design: Ueda says the holding-hands action came from pushing the protagonist-alien relationship in Another World to its logical conclusion, and that removing words would have been too frightening without it.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eUeda recalled playing the Super Famicom release of Another World at a friend\u0026#39;s house because he did not own the console, and getting stuck just before the ending until the friend helped him finish it. What stayed with him was the idea that a game world can exist for its own sake rather than as a container for play.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChahi, who has been making games since 1983, came to ICO later, on a colleague\u0026#39;s recommendation made after he finished Heart of Darkness. In conversation, both men framed the absence of language in their work as a constraint they worked under rather than a style they set out to build.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Ueda credits Another World with teaching him it is fine to build a world for its own sake. That idea later drove ICO, where the castle and the horned boy carry the story without dialogue.","twitterPost":"Ueda says Another World taught him a world can exist for itself, not for the game. ICO then told its story with almost no words.","threadsPost":"Ueda picked up Another World as a student and took from it the idea that a world can exist for its own sake. At The Tenth Mosaic, he and Eric Chahi traced that approach to ICO, where the castle and the horned boy carry the story without dialogue.","newsletterBlurb":"The Tenth Mosaic ran at the Institut francais de Tokyo on September 22 and 23, and on the second day Eric Chahi and Fumito Ueda sat down together. Ueda traced his start with Another World to a friend's Super Famicom and said the idea of a world made for its own sake stayed with him, while Chahi came to ICO on a colleague's recommendation after Heart of Darkness. Both described their words-free approach as a constraint rather than a choice.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Denfaminicogamer\",\"url\":\"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/kikakuthetower/261013a\",\"title\":\"Eric Chahi (Another World) x Fumito Ueda (ICO) Talk - Where Does Ueda's \\\"Words-Free\\\" World Come From? On Depicting Not a \\\"World for the Game\\\" but a \\\"Living World\\\" [The Tenth Mosaic]\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4721,"outputTokens":704,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791865332,"createdAt":"2026-10-13T04:17:48.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-13T04:21:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-13T04:21:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_98cac7a0f7df5ab83e65a5ea","canonicalTitle":"『Another World』エリック・シャイ氏×『ICO』上田文人氏対談 ― 上田氏の「言葉に頼らない」作品世界はどこから来たのか。「ゲームのための世界」ではなく「生きている世界」を描くということ【The Tenth Mosaic】","representativeArticleId":"a_19e9ba2e884a148b7bc5411b","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Another World\",\"ICO\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Éric Chahi\",\"Fumito Ueda\"],\"type\":\"other\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-13T03:00:44.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-13T03:00:44.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-13T04:21:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Denfaminicogamer","url":"https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/kikakuthetower/261013a","title":"『Another World』エリック・シャイ氏×『ICO』上田文人氏対談 ― 上田氏の「言葉に頼らない」作品世界はどこから来たのか。「ゲームのための世界」ではなく「生きている世界」を描くということ【The Tenth Mosaic】"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Another World","ICO"],"studios":[],"people":["Éric Chahi","Fumito Ueda"],"type":"other","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}