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[M.Steiner]

Just came across this awesome looking stop-motion adventure game which has just launched on Kickstarter:

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbejfDVg73c

A modern adventure game about the daily routine on a spaceship stuck undersea. Stop-motion look, exploration, story and humor!

Harold Halibut is a modern adventure game, with a strong focus on storytelling and exploration. Set in a spaceship, stuck under sea on a distant water planet, you slip into the tiny shoes of Harold. As a young janitor and lab assistant to Professor Jeanne Mareaux, one of the lead scientists on board, he tries to help out in her attempt to find a way to relaunch the ship.

Hundreds of years ago, in the 1970s the generation ship was sent out as humanity’s last chance to continue life elsewhere.

But poor planning and silly fights in the cockpit led to the mission crash landing on a planet that turned out to be water-only. So Harold never witnessed the heroic spirit the people on board once carried with them, as he was born way past the crash date. Currently you will notice a limboish state inside of „Fedora I“.

Technically the plan is to find a way to relaunch the ship and get out of the water but the diversity amongst the inhabitatants leads to various interest groups standing in each others way.

Taking in the atmosphere and being a part of this utopia-turned-awry is key here. Enable communication within a society that has long been fixated on (and eventually disillusioned with) being the last outpost of humanity. Your choice of engagement in conversation unfolds and affects the personality Harold quietly carries inside of him.

Wander around the Station and be prepared to make most things around you bleep and bloop. Do be careful, though. If you break the wrong thing someone might hold a long-time grudge with you. You may also randomly be challenged to a thumb wrestling match. Or chill out in the former planetarium and count weird fish floating by. Or hang out at the arcade. Or do other things besides the point!

€150,000 initial goal, runs until Aug 4th.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slowbros/harold-halibut-a-handmade-adventure-game

 

[Oneself]

Wow, it looks amazing. I'm not really into adventure games though.

 

[Duraigo]

Looks interesting!

 

[Yohane]

Looks amazing!

 

[Wozman23]

I always appreciate claymation and stop motion.

The music instantly gave me vibes of Kenna's "Hell Bent."

 

[Green Yoshi]

Looks interesting.

Thanks for the thread.

 

[MadMod]

Game is incredibly innovative. Love the atmosphere and the games graphics look great! Keeping my eye on this one.

 

[M.Steiner]

Looks like they're doing a live stream of this next week:

We will be live-streaming pre-alpha gameplay next Wednesday on Kickstarter Live, acting out the dialogue lines!

The Event will be accompanied by a Q&A, live sculpting by the game's art director Ole Tillmann, and live music by Sascha Haus.

Here is the link to the stream: http://bit.ly/2sZeMug

Following the event, we are also going to release a new Teaser!

Update #7 - Kickstarter Live: Gameplay Session, Q&A, and Teaser Release!

Will have to try & catch this.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

There's another stopmotion P&C game in the works - Jack Houston - and the dev is always doing videos of all the work that goes into the sets if anyone is interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkvfTdD9gx8