We are occasionally nostalgic by design. Particularly when it comes to the 1990s, an era where both hardware and software imposed clear limits, and those limits demanded clarity of thought. With fewer visual tricks available, story, mood, and composition had to lead.

Inspired by the graphic language of PS1-era games, James, our Senior Art Director, began reconstructing the Dialect studio and its surrounding neighbourhood as a navigable game environment. Low-poly geometry, restrained colour palettes, and deliberately imperfect textures were embraced not as constraints, but as creative tools.

These scenes are not static. They shift subtly with the time of day and local weather, introducing a quiet sense of meteorology and place. A nod to formative works such as Another World (1991), whose atmosphere and restraint left a lasting impression on how we think about digital worlds.

What emerges is less an exercise in imitation and more an act of translation. Revisiting a visual language that shaped us, and using it to reframe the present. Proof that limitation, when embraced, can still produce spaces rich in mood, intention, and memory.

For the contact page we've built a full suite of scene variations that shift intelligently based on real time weather and time of day data so when someone visits the contact page, they’re shown the version of the scene that matches the conditions outside our studio at that moment in time.

Look out for a few easter eggs in there too!