What it’s all about

Posted by Kerry on April 13, 2008 | Permalink

Time for a quick introduction to my current project, Clouds Beyond Clouds. The game is a point and click adventure based on the lives and works of the Brontë sisters. Set in a fictional West Yorkshire village, it’s a dark literary mystery in which fiction and history are blurred.

The game is narrative-driven, being both a game about literature and a mystery story in itself, and is designed to reward exploration and create an immersive atmosphere. Roughly translated, this means that there’s lots to look at and you can’t die.

I’m building the game using Flash and Lassie Adventure Studio, a Flash-based development tool for building adventure games. I’ll talk more about this in future posts, but for now suffice it to say that I’m very pleased with it and would happily recommend it to anyone who knows which end of Flash is which.

Naturally, I’ll be talking a lot about this project over the coming weeks. I’ll be uploading some concept art and screenshots over the next couple of weeks, and plan to deliver a playable, browser-based demo in the near future. Watch this space - or, even better, sign up for email updates (in the left-hand column, there) and I’ll let you know as soon as there’s any exciting news.

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