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ICO

ICO is not currently in active production. The most recent mention is a September 23 talk at Institut francais de Tokyo where Fumito Ueda described the holding-hands action as an extension of the protagonist-alien relationship in Another World, and said removing words would have been too frightening without it.

Synthesized from 30 Yomimono stories · updated Oct 17

ICO is the older title in a conversation about how games build worlds without words. 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. He took from it the idea that it is okay to make a world for the world's sake rather than a world for the game.

The talk put a direct line between Another World and ICO's design. Ueda said 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. 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.

That is the entire current record. No re-release, remake, port, or new project for ICO appears in the stories. The only concrete development tied to the name is the account of how its central mechanic was derived from another game, given by its director at a two-day event in Tokyo.

Key facts

Event
The Tenth Mosaic, at the Institut francais de Tokyo, held September 22 and 23; Eric Chahi and Fumito Ueda spoke on September 23. ↗
Origin of the holding-hands action
Ueda said the holding-hands action came from pushing the protagonist-alien relationship in Another World to its logical conclusion. ↗
Ueda on removing words
Ueda said removing words would have been too frightening without the holding-hands action. ↗
Chahi on ICO
Chahi said a colleague urged him to play ICO after Heart of Darkness. ↗
Ueda's first contact with Another World
Ueda first played the Super Famicom version of Another World as a university student and cleared it with a friend's help. ↗
Shared approach
Both described their words-free style as something they had no choice but to do. ↗

Timeline

Synthesized by Yomimono from the cited Yomimono stories below, each itself sourced, then editorially reviewed. Every fact links the story it came from.

Facts

Noted
A colleague urged Chahi to play ICO after Heart of Darkness · 2026-10-13

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