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We're thrilled to announce that Under a Porcelain Sun is coming to Steam in Summer this year!
Inspired by, postmodern and magical realist literature, Under a Porcelain Sun is an journey that immerses you in a surreal vision of India under British rule, in early Nineteenth century.
Travel through a country caught amidst the flux of Colonial expansion in first person, as you get embroiled in the search for Kayamgadh, a city that does not exist.
Encounter, brass astronomers and tribes of wax giants, secretive langoors and indolent magistrates, wandering cities and invisible cantonments, in a story told through ever shifting frames of narration. A story that you piece together with every shift and warp in reality, and every surreal, beautifully realised environment that you wander through.
We hope you'll join us in this surreal world and add Under a Porcelain Sun to your wishlist:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/532230/Under_a_Porcelain_Sun/
Today we also released the beautiful pay-what-you-want Itch.io game, A Museum of Dubious Splendors, on Steam for free.
A peculiar collection of stories from the world of Somewhere, A Museum of Dubious Splendors has you explore the translated works of the Gujarati poet Mir UmarHassan, and the chronicles tales from the strange collection of artifacts at the Sangrahalaya (Museum) at Matsyapur.
Play it now here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/772680/a_Museum_of_Dubious_Splendors/
[ 2018-03-06 17:52:54 CET ] [ Original post ]
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We're thrilled to announce that Under a Porcelain Sun is coming to Steam in Summer this year!
Inspired by, postmodern and magical realist literature, Under a Porcelain Sun is an journey that immerses you in a surreal vision of India under British rule, in early Nineteenth century.
Travel through a country caught amidst the flux of Colonial expansion in first person, as you get embroiled in the search for Kayamgadh, a city that does not exist.
Encounter, brass astronomers and tribes of wax giants, secretive langoors and indolent magistrates, wandering cities and invisible cantonments, in a story told through ever shifting frames of narration. A story that you piece together with every shift and warp in reality, and every surreal, beautifully realised environment that you wander through.
We hope you'll join us in this surreal world and add Under a Porcelain Sun to your wishlist:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/532230/Under_a_Porcelain_Sun/
Today we also released the beautiful pay-what-you-want Itch.io game, A Museum of Dubious Splendors, on Steam for free.
A peculiar collection of stories from the world of Somewhere, A Museum of Dubious Splendors has you explore the translated works of the Gujarati poet Mir UmarHassan, and the chronicles tales from the strange collection of artifacts at the Sangrahalaya (Museum) at Matsyapur.
Play it now here:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/772680/a_Museum_of_Dubious_Splendors/
[ 2018-03-06 17:52:54 CET ] [ Original post ]
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Set in surreal Colonial India it chronicles the journey of two itinerant thieves, Aziz and Azaam, as they get embroiled in the search for a mythical city called Kayamgadh, and in the mysterious death of RumalChand Kedru.
Travel through nineteenth century Malwa, as you encounter salt bandits and brass astronomers; Armies of langoors who all know a secret and decadent Magistrates living in castles of glue;
Wax people who melt at noon everyday, only to emerge as different people and Gemstone merchants who live in wells. Mendicants and Jagirdars made of smoke
and all manner of strange citizenry that wander the desolate Bhula region. All the while attempting to flee soldiers from the Gwalior cantonment who are searching for you, for having peddled forgeries to their Company commander.
Explore a strange and decadent region abandoned after the Bhir rebellion, and play through an absurd revision of Colonial history, while jumping through characters and time and stories in bewildering multitude.
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The people of Kayamgadh do not speak.
They are afraid that their words might penetrate the layers under which their bodies are hidden. Afraid that some phrase or name might,
through woolen caps and cotton plugs and balled bits of torn rags, enter their buried ears and insert itself into their thoughts,
prompting them to think of Kayamgadh not as they see it but as it is being described to them by the person speaking these words.
It is a fear so deeply entrenched, that people now see the city with unwilling eyes, shaded behind their hands,
lest they be tempted into a sudden burst of verbiage whilst looking upon the wonders of Kayamgadh. a temptation that might resist the doctrine of their self imposed silence.
For Kayamgadh is a wonderful city, where the craftsmen strive hard to put into form all that they cannot give words to,
and where the work of the craftsman is left undisturbed, for it is only looked upon and but never described by the people, who never speak.
C 1804. From the Journal of Charles Henry Connington. As restored and translated by Mir UmamrHassan in 1962, from the original folio compilation by AzizUsta.
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