Hello everyone! We're still confined, but we're making good progress. We hope you're doing well too! This month, we talk about our progress on Across the Grooves and the game's musical references!

What have we been up to?

Last month, we did a private beta and got some very cool feedback. Some testers loved it, some testers hated it, but no one was left indifferent! Big thanks to the testers for their involvement and for their precious feedback that allows us to make better games. After the tests, we made a lot of changes: improvements of the texts, the coherence of the scenario, the music The games setting, rather obscure musical references and tone of "magic realism" may cause some divided opinions, but we hope with all our hearts that youll be seduced by the universe, which promises to be quite different from what most gamers are used to. And lastly, were still moving forward. We're in the polishing phase, so it's starting to feel like the end of production! We're still working from home, but we're well organized and we're working hard. So we're staying the course to keep to a release in the first half of 2020! I promise, we'll tell you more soon... A little more patience! ;-) Also, Unwinnable talked about us in an article about Seers Isle in the Monthly Unwinnable category. Many thanks to them! Check it out by clicking here: Rowan from Seers Isle by Deirdre Coyle

The music in Across the Grooves

As you may know, music will have a major role in the game. We've created a lot of songs, and we can already tell you that the OST is going to sound like a pop album! We are very proud of the result and once again, wed like to thank Julien and Camille for the music and sound design, Christelle for lending us her beautiful voice, and Charles-Henry Martin who wrote and recorded the soundtrack of Along the Edge, and who is now the pianist for Across the Grooves! We created a Spotify playlist with a mix of musical references sent to the musicians for inspiration, as well as other songs and artists referenced in game. Listen to the playlist on Spotify! Weve added a lexicon feature in the game for those who would like to learn more about the musical references of Across the Grooves. This lexicon is not intended to replace wikipedia, but rather to be an invitation to discovery for the curious. Moreover, all the entries have recommendations of records or songs to discover... Your curiosity is the only limit!
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[ 2020-05-01 12:33:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Across the Grooves is an interactive graphic novel, set in a magical-realism universe. Your decisions affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past.



Alice lives an uneventful life. She’s in a long term relationship, has a stable office job and a nice apartment in the center of Bordeaux. One day, Ulysse, her ex-lover, comes back into her life through an old vinyl record she receives in the mail. When she puts it for a spin on turntable, she is thrown back into her own past, forced to relive old events. When she comes back to the present, her reality has changed.

Determined to bring her life back on track, Alice packs up and embarks on a hunt across Europe, following the tracks of Ulysse while trying to uncover the origins of the record. However, her journey gradually turns into a quest of self-discovery as she explores new parallel realities each time she puts the needle in the groove.

• A hand-crafted adventure — With each playthrough, discover a novel-sized adventure and a slice of the hundreds of hand-drawn images created for the game.
  
• Every choice matters — Each decision you make slightly alters the personality of the main character, Alice.
  
• An invitation to travel — Feel the pulse of European cities, meet colourful characters and solve the mystery, all depicted in gorgeous European comic book art style.
  
• Immersive and finely crafted soundtrack — The music adapts and shifts according to your choices and the mood of each scene.
  
• High replayability — Choose Alice’s fate and discover the outcome of your decisions through multiple story paths and endings.