Preview: Alchemia (Springtail Studio)
Alchemia is a point and click adventure in which the hero arrives in "an underground city full of strange things" and must help his friend find a new body.
There's no knowing what the gameplay will be like as of yet, but the screenshots posted on the official site look quite beautiful. Springtail promise that the game will feature "many complicated puzzles and riddles" so I guess we can expect it to be quite difficult.
The setup of the game sounds quite strange. Set in two parts, creator Tomas explains:
"The first [part] will be available online for free, second part will be available to download for a symbolic payment"
In other words, they hope players will enjoy the first part so much that they will be dying to part with their cash to continue on into the second part. We shall see if it works out for them when the game is released in the next few months.
Comments
Looks very Samorost-esque, in a good way :)
Posted by: Seamus | April 24, 2009 4:51 PM
This really is strangely similar to the games by Amanita Design. I've just tried Springtail's previous games Haluz and Haluz 2 and the whole concept of a point & click-adventure set in a surreal world designed with a mix of photos and other art, it's basically the same. I think Amanita even use a similar sales model for their games.
I find that really odd, but anyway, Springtail's games are seemingly also very nicely done, so I'd have to agree that this similarity is likely a good thing :)
Posted by: MisterX | April 24, 2009 5:01 PM
yep. Really Samorostesque! Not as really good from a visual point of view, but still interesring...
I agree on the sale model thing. Samorost 1 was for free and for the sequel you had to pay a small (symbolic) fee.
Samorost really created a kind of genere...
Posted by: hanzo | April 24, 2009 10:21 PM