There’s actually nothing fairly like an journey by Amanita Design, makers of memorable and beloved video games like Samorost and Machinarium. So I am certain I am not the one one thrilled to see the Czech indie collective has simply introduced a brand new recreation. It is known as Phonopolis, and the “hand-crafted journey” would be the studio’s first dive into full 3D graphics. Take a look at the gorgeous and intriguing (however painfully temporary) teaser above.
In Phonopolis “gamers will tackle the position of Felix, a considerate younger man who, alongside together with his fellow residents, faces the upcoming menace of falling underneath the management of the dystopian metropolis’s authoritarian Chief as soon as and for all, successfully dropping their humanity,” reads the press launch from Amanita Design.
If that plot abstract sounds a bit political in nature, you are appropriate—hell, the press launch even features a quote from George Orwell’s 1984, and the sport will discover quite a lot of completely different themes like “constructivism, futurism, or suprematism, and their societal impression as a instrument of propaganda.” Whereas that each one sounds fairly heavy, Amanita Design says it is “nonetheless conserving the general expertise playful and light-hearted.”
Hand-crafted is not an exaggeration, both—the sport is genuinely being painted and assembled in the actual world out of corrugated fiberboard, after which photographed and uploaded. “Though the sport is being developed inside a 3D engine, we’re nonetheless hand-crafting as many property as we are able to. All textures are painted on cardboard, cut-out, digitized and positioned on its respective 3D mannequin,” says Oto Dostál, technical artist on Phonopolis.
The results of that effort seems lovely and weird—which describes just about all of Amanita’s adventures. Sadly there is not any launch date for Phonopolis but, apart from that the developer expects it to be prepared for launch “inside the subsequent yr.”
