Introduction In this and upcoming posts, we will tell you more about our game. What was the original game vision, what went right, what went wrong and we will share some concept art too.
What is Kiara? Kiara is a unique suspense adventure/puzzle game with strong emphasis on story. You play as Mina, a young woman who gets trapped in another dimension after her elevator ride goes awry. In exchange of her freedom, she must help trapped souls by piecing together their past from manifested objects.
Features
- Puzzles, everyone loves them.
- Mysterious plot, this demo has two endings
- Original music and art
- Voice acting during cutscenes
Original game vision We were working on other game before the contest but decided to move onto this project, since we had to plan something completely new since we couldn’t use anything we had previously worked on.
Our code wizard had this idea of a game that is inspired of the urban legend “elevator game”. The entire team started to build a story around that idea and then our writer started to write all our thoughts into one solid concept.
Originally there was supposed to be more to play in the beginning before going into the elevator. We had planned a segment where Mina, the main character, goes to her job. You could communicate with her co-workers and maybe meet a few familiar faces from our previous game Traum.
As we started to plan a horror game, we gathered some inspiration for art from Junji Ito’s manga,Parasite Eve,Clock tower, Pan’s Labyrinth and Crimson peakjust to name a few. We wanted to create more creepy atmosphere and make the player feel uneasy. Being alone in a place that doesn’t make sense makes most of us feel unease.
We decided to go with grayscale and sketch -feel, because coloring might have taken too much time and if we couldn’t do colors in all the parts, the unfinished parts would have stood out too much. After the artists played around with the idea, the entire team liked the outcome and the idea of a grayscale game. Also, we wanted to try creating a game that felt or looked like a manga.
This game is a submission to IGMC2018 and the rating is on. If you wish to rate our game go to this link: https://itch.io/jam/igmc2018/rate/336860
Special thank you to TwistyKris for voice acting! You can find her here:
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Thank you so much for reading, see you in the next post about what went right and what went wrong.