We’re at all times on the lookout for new methods to inform tales that join folks to the tradition of our shared world, and we’ve discovered that video games will be an unimaginable car for actually immersive storytelling. This is the reason we began a gaming residency program difficult builders to construct video games that join gamers with artwork like by no means earlier than. Final 12 months we launched a few of these playful experiences and at present we’re very excited to share one other.
For this challenge we challenged the professional storytellers at inkle — the impartial studio behind video games akin to Overboard!, Heaven’s Vault and A Highland Tune — to take folks on a novel journey of inventive discovery and exploration — and so they got here up with the The Without end Labyrinth.
“After we started, we had been fairly overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the corpus,” recollects Jon Ingold, inkle’s narrative director. “The Without end Labyrinth is a recreation performed by making connections between artifacts, and it is a story about making connections between folks and artwork. By digging deeper into the unimaginable archive out there it gave us the scope to make the sport greater and broader, including extra artwork that linked in new and other ways. And in flip that meant we may add extra tales and secrets and techniques to discover.”
Artwork has a novel energy to move us — to completely different occasions, locations and realms of creativeness. Within the Without end Labyrinth this energy turns into ever extra literal as artworks turn out to be portals in an ever-changing maze crammed with humanity’s inventive legacy. In your mission to rescue the misplaced Professor Sheldrake you’ll discover clues, decipher cryptic messages and meet mysterious characters, while outwitting a lurking monster, and racing towards time to stop an impending collapse within the Without end Labyrinth.
