Hey people, I’m Zhenghua Yang (folks name me “Z”), and I’m the founder & government director at Serenity Forge, behind video games like Doki Doki Literature Membership Plus and The place the Water Tastes Like Wine. Our new title, Homestead Arcana, is a farming journey recreation pushed by environment and narrative. You play as a Witch who pioneers the vary that has been mysteriously corrupted with Miasma.
Our Inspiration
The core mission of Serenity Forge is that we concentrate on creating significant and emotionally impactful video games that problem the best way you suppose. We’re based mostly in Boulder, Colorado, which is surrounded by lovely mountains and huge prairies. Over time, we have been actually impressed by the significant affect of Colorado tradition, mindset of environmental sustainability, in addition to the grandeur of the native panorama. We questioned, “what would our nook of the world appear like if it have been the locus of some world-altering occasion?” That’s how Homestead Arcana was born.
Uncovering Historical past
In Homestead Arcana, you end up in a post-apocalyptic world. Over millennia, careless use of magic submerged the world in a sea of poisonous miasma. Life throughout the clouds is nearly not possible. The folks and creatures that managed to outlive within the miasma grew to become warped, mysterious, twisted, and harmful. On account of this world disaster, a lot of the inhabitants have develop into fearful, reserved, and remoted: however not you. Utilizing spellcraft, mind, and grit, you set forth to revive the land for future generations. By way of the course of the sport, you uncover the key behind the Miasma, are inclined to your vegetation and homestead to energy up your spells, and use nature’s magic to revive the land. You discover the submerged ruins and journey to uncover the reality behind the world.
Narrative Adventures
The world of Homestead Arcana is extraordinarily atmospheric, and we actually targeted on narrative storytelling by means of environmental design. We had a extremely broad vary of inspirations, resembling WPA posters and woodblock prints that seize the grandeur of landscapes within the traditional creativeness of Americana, Miyazaki movies like Princess Mononoke, particularly the distinction between lush/lovely nature and the overgrown international wastes in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, the damaging and unforgiving nature of Made in Abyss, and in addition the unusual, effervescent, hard-to-pin down supernatural phenomena in novels/movies like Annihilation.
We needed to create a world the place gamers are immersed in constructing their very own residence much like video games like My Time at Portia or Stardew Valley, however put them in an isolating and mysterious world much like video games like Shadow of the Colossus.
Along with the environment, we are also very character-centric. Our tales begin with the feelings of the folks in unusual conditions, and we tease out how they’d truly really feel in response to the unusual, super-natural challenges they face in the midst of the sport. In Homestead Arcana, you begin by arriving at your crumbling deserted farm together with your trusty acquainted, Huckleberry (who you’ll be able to pet!), voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. Remoted from civilization, however along with his assist, you slowly be taught the ropes and begin to settle into your life on the vary. Nonetheless, you slowly discover that Huckleberry is likely to be hiding much more than he makes seen, and that perhaps the 2 of you aren’t truly alone right here in spite of everything.
Farming and survival on their very own are already actually attention-grabbing genres that include ample alternative for immersion, roleplay, and consequential participant alternative. In these sorts of video games, gamers need to discover and poke on the boundaries of the world, which is precisely the mindset we’re looking for to seize. In our recreation, this finally ends up main gamers from easy gathering and crafting to unearthing magical discoveries a whole bunch of years within the making.
It’s in all probability greatest for me to cease right here and allow you to discover the fantastic world of Homestead Arcana your self. I’m so excited so that you can play Homestead Arcana on April twenty first on PC and Xbox Sequence X|S. Thanks a lot for supporting our imaginative and prescient of making significant and emotionally impactful video games!
Homestead Arcana
Skybound Video games
$19.99
Develop into a farming Witch and pioneer the vary that has been mysteriously corrupted with Miasma. Uncover the key behind its look, develop vegetation to energy up your spells, and use nature’s magic to heal the land.
Create Your Personal Farm
Construct your very personal homestead from the bottom up. Uncover new vegetation and have a tendency to your ever-growing backyard to heal the land and make it your personal.
Enterprise into the Miasma and Uncover Its Secrets and techniques
Survive the deathly Miasma, the place harmful warped creatures roam free, and discover it to search out its secrets and techniques.
Discover new highly effective vegetation and spells to develop your backyard
Deliver again new vegetation and spells, develop your homestead, then journey even deeper into the corrupted land in the hunt for new seeds, recipes, and data.
Develop into an All-Highly effective Witch and Wield Nature’s Magic to Heal the World
Faucet into the energy of nature to craft spells and prepared your self for the mysterious challenges forward as you’re employed together with your pleasant cat acquainted, Huckleberry to beat again the deathly Miasma.
