Ken Wong's Florence is a metaphor for "how we use mobiles"

Florence is a mobile title coming next year from Australian studio Mountains, headed by Ken Wong (who has previously worked on Monument Valley as lead designer), and in a recent interview with Polygon Wong explains what went into making the game.

"It's 2017. We can make games about anything," he started by saying. "We ended up thinking about the relationship between touchscreen on mobile devices and how touch is intimate, and how [we use] our personal mobile devices. We take them with us everywhere, and we use them in bed, and they feel really personal to us. We started building up this metaphor between how we use our mobile devices and relationships."

What is Florence actually about though? Well, it follows a love story, and the fluctuating states of relationships, using a colourful art style to do so. Florence herself is in a dead-end job, and she meets a man called Krish, who she then falls in love with. That's about all we know right now.

The game will be played in portrait and will feature Florence's own perspective as well as minigames and scenes where you see the relationship blossom, much like a film. In fact, films are another thing that Wong discussed:

"I also really love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I love that these [stories] examine both sides of love — both the painful and the joyful. That's something that I really didn't want to do: just a happy-ending kind of story of boy meets girl, and there's some misunderstanding, and everything's OK."

"I think that people come into our lives and they change us and have an effect on us, and you have to learn how to see how both positive and negative experiences make us grow," Wong added.

For more on the game check out the official website. Has Florence caught your interest?