Cocoon’s cosmic tale is like no other – this puzzle adventure game begins with a tiny insect but concludes with the creation of a solar system. Tasking you with placing worlds inside other worlds, each one encased in a glass orb, it’s a premise that is truly mind-bending, set in a world in which nothing feels impossible.

Produced in collaboration with Geometric Interactive and Annapurna Interactive, Cocoon: Design Works is an extended glimpse through the looking glass. A celebration of some of indie gaming’s most innovative and evocative puzzle concepts, the book charts the development of the game from abstract daydream to mind-bending reality, featuring extensive interviews with the studio’s key figures: Jeppe Carlsen, Jakob Schmid, and Erwin Kho.

Cocoon: Design Works chronicles the many facets of the game’s development, beginning with Cocoon’s early design concepts. We then move to a detailed breakdown of Carlsen's puzzle composition process, before continuing to an exploration of Kho’s captivating biomechanical setting, and concluding with Schmid’s innovative endeavour to create a totally synthetic soundscape.

Alongside these written interviews and analysis is a multitude of screenshots, artwork, and sketches, many exclusive to the book, including a selection of portrait pages that offer an extensive look at the game’s biomechanical, insectoid beings.

Cocoon begins with a single idea and expands into something seemingly impossible, but it’s a journey that never leaves us confounded: as Cocoon’s world expands, so too does our understanding of it. Cocoon: Design Works captures that exhilarating feeling and gives it dazzling, physical form.