Newsletter #33 February 2024
Last year, Nova-box was one of the pilot studios in France to set up a tool for calculating greenhouse gas emissions for video games. This collaborative effort led to the deployment of the JYROS platform, now available to all. We've been striving to make low-tech games for over ten years, and we're aware of our environmental impact, but we've always refrained from communicating about it, because we didn't have any figures to back up our intentions, however virtuous they may be. The cost of a personalized carbon footprint was unfortunately prohibitive for a small structure like ours. We're delighted to now be able to share our figures with you:
Of course, we'd love to be able to compare these figures with the industry average, but it's difficult to find reliable, anonymized data at this stage. We'll be happy to update you when we have more data to share. Until then, we think we can agree that our consumption is indeed very low, and not at all representative of the cost of IT in general. To find out more, we invite you to visit the Jyros website: https://jyros-jeuvideo.com/ (The "resource" page contains numerous documents, guides and reports on the subject).
We're very glad to report that our next release has been submitted and validated by Steam. Hopefully, we'll be able to tell you a lot more soon. In the meantime, here's the soundtrack cover of our mysterious next project (though our most faithful followers might already have figured out what we've been working on *wink wink*).
Thats all for now, and see you next month! And in the meantime, Seers Isle, Along the Edge, and Across the Grooves and End of Lines are available here on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15195/Novabox_Collection/ If you want to subscribe to our mailing list, you can register here: http://www.nova-box.com/signup You'll get extra-fresh updates about our projects and our whereabouts once a month, nestled in the coziness of your own inbox (we'll never send spam, and you can unsubscribe anytime). Best, Geoffroy, on behalf of the team.
[ 2024-02-28 09:53:55 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hello everyone!
While we're secretly working on our upcoming release (you'll get a sneak peak at the end of this newsletter), let's talk a bit about carbon emissions.
JYROS
Last year, Nova-box was one of the pilot studios in France to set up a tool for calculating greenhouse gas emissions for video games. This collaborative effort led to the deployment of the JYROS platform, now available to all. We've been striving to make low-tech games for over ten years, and we're aware of our environmental impact, but we've always refrained from communicating about it, because we didn't have any figures to back up our intentions, however virtuous they may be. The cost of a personalized carbon footprint was unfortunately prohibitive for a small structure like ours. We're delighted to now be able to share our figures with you:
Of course, we'd love to be able to compare these figures with the industry average, but it's difficult to find reliable, anonymized data at this stage. We'll be happy to update you when we have more data to share. Until then, we think we can agree that our consumption is indeed very low, and not at all representative of the cost of IT in general. To find out more, we invite you to visit the Jyros website: https://jyros-jeuvideo.com/ (The "resource" page contains numerous documents, guides and reports on the subject).
What have we been up to?
We're very glad to report that our next release has been submitted and validated by Steam. Hopefully, we'll be able to tell you a lot more soon. In the meantime, here's the soundtrack cover of our mysterious next project (though our most faithful followers might already have figured out what we've been working on *wink wink*).
Thats all for now, and see you next month! And in the meantime, Seers Isle, Along the Edge, and Across the Grooves and End of Lines are available here on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15195/Novabox_Collection/ If you want to subscribe to our mailing list, you can register here: http://www.nova-box.com/signup You'll get extra-fresh updates about our projects and our whereabouts once a month, nestled in the coziness of your own inbox (we'll never send spam, and you can unsubscribe anytime). Best, Geoffroy, on behalf of the team.
Across the Grooves
Nova-box
Nova-box
2020-06-17
Singleplayer
Game News Posts 31
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support
Very Positive
(81 reviews)
http://www.acrossthegrooves.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/957820 
Across the Grooves Linux [2.13 G]
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.
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 and later. Fedora 21. Debian 8 (64bits only)
- Processor: 2.0 GhzMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated or dedicated graphic card with 512MB of VRAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 and later. Fedora 21. Debian 8 (64bits only)
- Processor: 2.6 GhzMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated or dedicated graphic card with 512MB of VRAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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