The Art of NORCO

The Art of NORCO

Pixels, photographs, research, and other ephemera behind the creation of the game NORCO.

The Art of NORCO is a digital artbook with over 80 pages of NORCO's painterly and cinematic pixel art. From conceptual sketches to polished game environments, see how the disappearing swamplands, labyrinthine oil refineries, and other areas in and around the titular town of Norco, Louisiana inspired the art of the game. Discover NORCO's underlying themes of industrialization, suburbanization, speculative geography, cancer, faith, and home – and read bios and backgrounds for the characters and locations in the game, plus interviews and anecdotes from developers Geography of Robots.