The Town of Light - Erster Trailer/Infos
Verfasst: 23.07.2015, 15:51
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAI3B0K9HiU
London, 23rd July 2015, LKA.it, an independent developer based in Florence, Italy, is proud to announce its presence at Gamescom 2015 to showcase a playable version of their first game: The Town of Light.
After a successful presentation this year at Develop 2015, where member of the press have been offered the chance to play the opening sequence of the game, it is now time to introduce the protagonist of the game Renee.
“We had made a lot of research to create a compelling and realistic character for our game, a character we want the player to develop a strong empathy with. The elements that will be unveiled in the game are only a little part of Renee’s history” said Luca Dalco’, creative director of The Town of Light.
This year at Gamescom, media will have the chance to play an extended version of the game, which also support Oculus Rift to guarantee total immersion in the game world as well as speaking with the team about the whole idea behind the game.
The Town of Light is a first-person psychological thriller set in the Volterra Psychiatric Asylum, shutted down in the late '900 by a law from 1978 Italian government (which instructed to close all the asylums together, contextually giving back civil right to their patients).
The game aims to explore what’s really happened inside those wall in the fictional eyes of Renée’s, an imaginary 16 years old girl that suffers of mental illness.
The adventure starts at present days, near the Asylum.
Renee’s voice will guides the player, which will try to find her forgotten and blurred memories through her eyes, her fears and her personal drama whilst exploring an environment full of realistic documents and locations as they were back in time as well as they are today.
The Town of Light is a game that want to keep memories of what’s happened alive, focusing on mental illness issues that exists in our society.
The Town of Light has been developed with Unity game engine for PC, Mac, Linux and will be release in Fall 2015.
Main features
Inspired by true stories.
Set in one of the biggest asylum in Europe
Over 7000 square meters of the real Volterra asylum carefully recreated
Rich bibliography about the history of mental institutions based on extensive research
Nonlinear gameplay experience will allow different evolution of the main story
Native support for Oculus Rift