While we've posted a lot on our social media and website about our upcoming games, we've neglected to put an update here. Time to correct that!
A man awakes in an otherworldly carnival and watches a golden-haired woman hurl herself down a bottomless well for his sake. He seeks empty answers from mocking ravens, an eyeless scribe, a living furnace, a mismade mermaid, and many more who dwell within the park. All the while, something wicked screeches from the top of a towering roller-coaster, and he knows that until he destroys this Dark Thing, the woman will keep jumping, falling, and dying, over and over again .... Strangeland is a point-and-click adventure, smaller than Primordia (it began life as a competition entry) but similarly inspired by the classics. Anyone who enjoyed Primordia's beautiful art, philosophical musings, or melancholy tone will find them here as well. We are hoping to release it by the end of this year, but realistically it may not come out till early 2019. You can watch a teaser trail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOWpyVHeKRE&lc=z23vzxngrpq1urewa04t1aokgyro01xznpxyy05is4x5rk0h00410 And you can read more about it here: http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/2018/03/announcing-strangeland.html
Once, the world was better, the gods greater, the wars over, the end farther. You were born in the Cloudlands during those days, one of the Ormfolk, forever young and strong, worshiped by those below for your forefathers deeds. But all is not well. Now, wolves and worse haunt the night, the law holds no sway, and mens hearts grow hard toward your kind. Fearful of their dwindling shares of souls, your brothers turned against each other ... and against you. And so you were cast down from the clouds, a fallen god broken upon the bitter earth. You rise, still free from death, with only the slightest hope of winning your way back to the heavens that are your rightful home. Fallen Gods is a narrative, exploratory RPG designed for repeated replaying. At the core of Fallen Gods are choose-your-own-adventure vignettes in the spirit of classic gamebooks. Each of these events, accompanied by a hand-painted illustration, consists of a series of decisions that depend upon the skills the god knows, the items he bears, and the followers he leads. Inside and outside of these events, the player will be able to explore the word, lore, and mechanics of Fallen Gods, and the more he comes to understand them, the better his odds of success. We've been working on Fallen Gods for about five years now, and given its complexity, depth, and personal importance to me, there is no rush to finish it. Hopefully it will be released sometime in 2019, but if not, it will be done in the fullness of time. You can watch a teaser story trailer here: https://youtu.be/DBodb6NSIL0 We've posted extensively about its development, so there is lots to read if you are interested: http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/2018/02/update-1-introducing-fallen-gods.html http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/2018/02/fallen-gods-update-2-days-of-yore.html http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/2018/03/fallen-gods-update-3-winning-was-easy.html http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/2018/04/fallen-gods-update-4-fallen-god.html http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/2018/05/fallen-gods-update-5-witches-and-dwergs.html http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/2018/07/fallen-gods-update-6-mappa-mundi.html http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/2018/08/fallen-gods-update-7-followers.html http://www.wormwoodstudios.com/2018/09/fallen-gods-update-8-violence.html