And this latest edition was a tricky one to pull off, because one, a large majority of developers being quite busy with Gamescom meant that there seemed to be slightly less offerings this time, and two, not only are we covering games and announcements from both Gamescom this weekend and PAX West the next weekend, but we also have to deal with the recent onslaught of games being released right now, including (but not limited to) Control, Knights and Bikes, Astral Chain, Children of Morta, Heave Ho, and Man of Medan. More information is available on its website.Hello, and welcome to another edition of Screenshot Saturday, where we highlight promising games promoted via the #screenshotsaturday tag each weekend. It’s this enchanting tongue that Papetura‘s team speak in fluently, gifting a rare delight in the medium through their work. Animation is the language of fantasy and imagination. It’s using the flexibility and imagination that animation allows to create worlds that are as huge as they are tiny, and all out of a material so common to us that it’s mundane.Ĭelebrated Czech animator Jan Švankmajer said that it’s through animation that magic enters the ordinary, invading our daily lives, and making us question what’s around us.
Not only does it share a composer in Floex (the musician on Botanicula), it also has the childlike humor, the fluid performances, and a similar fascination with microbiology.įinding a small world inside a fish with odd creatures residing there, as you do in Papetura‘s demo, is as Amanita Design as it gets. The biggest complement I can give is to say that Papetura has all the hallmarks of Amanita Design’s work.
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No, the team demonstrates an understanding of what to do with animation in order to capture the full potential of its unique character. And I don’t mean only in how the world is tangible, or that its production is unusual enough in videogames as to be the entirety of the appeal. The result of all the meticulous work is evidence enough that it’s all worth the effort. Sure, the team made a lot of mistakes along the way that they’ve now learned from and which will help to speed up future production, but it’s a timely undertaking either way. The short demo, which takes about 10 minutes to complete (three minutes if you know what you’re doing), took about four months to make from start to finish. As you can probably imagine, modelling paper into believable environs takes many hours and a lot of resources-there’s a short Making Of video that offers insight on this.Īnd, according to its creative team, that’s not even half of the work, as “the biggest challenge is to make paper model and light work as a whole.” Papetura is a combination of at least three disciplines: paper animation, photography, and coding. While the funding is a nuisance, as always, it’s also highly necessary for a project being constructed like this.
In fact, the small Polish team behind it are currently seeking funding on Indiegogo in order to paper the rest of the game. Unfortunately, there isn’t a way to immediately get access to the rest of Papetura right now as it still needs to be built. So, too, does your visit inside this delicate fantasy world. Once you do, you may wish you hadn’t, as it means the twinkling percussion of Floex stops. It’s the inside of this fish, and you need to point-and-click in a way that’ll get Pape and Tura out of there.
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The rest of the short demo ( download here) is surrounded by a shell of paper frills. The very ground they stand on betrays them it was a giant fish head all along, and now it rears itself up from underneath, flipping them both into the air before swallowing them whole. Modelling paper into believable environs takes many hoursĪs the pair arrange themselves, Pape plunging Tura upside-down into the ground for convenience’s sake, everything goes even more awry.
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