In 2019, Victorian developers House House released the worldwide sensation, Untitled Goose Game. This hilarious game about a mischievous goose on the loose in a village sold millions of copies around the globe, and won a number of awards, including D.I.C.E Game of the Year and BAFTA Games Award for Best Family and Social Game. And soon, you can learn all about it at the Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition in ACMI. This free exhibition will run from September 17 to February 16, 2025.
Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition at ACMI
This world premiere exhibition will arrive in town just ahead of Melbourne International Games Week in October. Learn all about the development and humour behind the game. The exhibition will connect the game’s comedic stylings through a century of film and television. See design material, sketches, concept art and playable versions of the game from its early development. These will be displayed publicly for the first time.
“It’s a very strange privilege to see our work commemorated in a public exhibition,” said House House Co-Director Michael McMaster. “Though we design our games to be played by a wide audience, we never imagined that that design process might itself be made accessible within the walls of a gallery.”
Designed with families in mind, the exhibition will also have colourful and interactive displays, such as flipbooks. If you love a good ‘Honk!’, you’ll also be able to play with sound effect buttons.
“As a museum of screen culture, videogames are at the heart of what we do,” said ACMI Director and CEO Seb Chan. “Untitled Goose Game is one of Melbourne’s most recognisable videogame exports of the past decade. We’ve been involved from playtesting its early development in the ACMI + RMIT Audience Lab, to presenting a series of live scored events in partnership with Orchestra Victoria. We’re honoured to give the goose the exhibition it deserves, revealing to audiences how it was made, and the wider cultural context it has come from.”
This exhibition will be free to attend. You’ll find it in ACMI’s Gallery 3, before it goes on tour.