Ex-Microids team prepare to open The Dead Flowers case in 2014
Published in 2002, Syberia is renowned among adventure fans for its memorable characters, intriguing atmosphere, and unique art style. Over a decade later, ex-Microïds (and later White Birds) developers Olivier Fontenay and Michel Bams have teamed up once again to form Mando Productions, and their upcoming point-and-click adventure The Dead Flowers Case promises gamers more of the imaginative art and puzzling gameplay that they've come to know and love.
The unique steampunk style of The Dead Flowers Case is being designed in collaboration with sculptor Stephane Hallieux, and features hand-crafted 3D character models and environments in a world where “chaotic” plant life has been eradicated, leaving only machine-based life-forms. The game’s characters live and work in large, “autonomous buildings,” and instead of food, three times a day they take a pill known as a “Neurovitamin.”
One morning, alarm bells go off throughout one of the buildings, and it is discovered that the company’s MecaBrain, its “computer chief accountant,” is dead. Strangely, his body is surrounded by the dead remains of flowers, which were thought to be extinct. It will be the player’s job, as an as-yet-unnamed police inspector, to investigate this crime and uncover why and by whom the MecaBrain was killed.
In order to solve this murdery mystery, players will be given a few unique investigative tools: the MecaLens, which can detect “plant life, prints” and other clues; the Small Machine, a “steampunk laptop;” and something known as the Big Machine, which is described as being “as big as a wall.” In addition to solving puzzles, you will interrogate witnesses and analyze clues to uncover the perpetrator.
Mando Productions is planning to launch a Kickstarter funding campaign on November 8th (or thereabouts) that will feature options for both digital and boxed copies of the game. If crowdfunding is successful, release is planned for roughly the third quarter of 2014 on PC, Mac, iOS, and Android tablet platforms.
More information about The Dead Flowers Case can be found at the official website.
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