An emotive visually stunning game set in a familiar but strange future - an imaginative reinvention of the point&click adventure genre
The Vision
We are a group of experienced game developers asking for your help to make a unique and visually stunning graphical adventure. We will be using a combination of inspiring 3D and beautifully crafted 2D artwork to set a new artistic benchmark for the point and click genre, not just on PC and Mac, but on tablet devices too. We call our style ‘Western Art, Eastern Heart’.
We’re re-imagining the point and click adventure, bringing it up to date so that it can be played just as easily on touch screen devices as with a mouse. We've taken out complicated inventory screens and obscure puzzles and replaced them with the streamlined interactivity and intuitive design now expected of modern games.
So What Is 'The Realm'?
The Realm is set in a far distant future where the world has been reclaimed by nature. Our once proud cities now lie abandoned - overgrown with strange plants and twisted vines. The locations in The Realm reflect the real-life landscapes and architecture of the North East of England.
Some humans remain, but they are now leading a more simple life based around small rural communities entirely divorced from modern technology and science. The age of magic and mysticism has returned and there are rumours of stirrings in the forests.
The trailer is far superior to these mediocre images they've provided, so make sure to watch it. Character design is uneven (the girl looks gorgeous in some scenes, but ugly in others, and the beast is a crappy Wanda to Kyozou reject), but apart from that the game looks glorious -- at least from what little of it they've shown so far. On a whole other level than that "Double Fine Adventure" squiggle shite. Still, all talk of "streamlining" and "innovation" sounds bogus, so I wouldn't hold my breath. 28 days to go...
