Hello! I’m Yuts, a member of the sport growth collaborative Geography of Robots.
We launched our first sport Norco in March and at the moment are bringing it to consoles with the assistance of our writer, Raw Fury. The sport’s a first-person point-and-click journey within the model of classics like Snatcher, Rise of the Dragon, and Deja Vu. You play as Kay, a transient younger lady who’s returned to her hometown of Norco, Louisiana following her mother’s dying solely to find that her brother has gone lacking. Through this narrative, the participant explores an uncanny and surreal depiction of South Louisiana crammed with deranged ditch prophets, influencer cults, distributed flesh AI, and different visions of an alternate current. We’ve been shocked and extraordinarily appreciative of the reception that the sport’s been receiving, having gained the first-ever Tribeca Games Award in 2021, in addition to the “Long Feature” award at Berlin A Maze fest.
The sport bought its begin as a casual geography mission following Hurricane Katrina. A detailed good friend and I had been touring round South Louisiana, taking images and conducting interviews to grasp how the storm impacted our dwelling. I’m from Norco, so I used to be notably centered on each the city and the encompassing “River Parish” area. We performed this mission from round 2007 to 2010. From there, I began experimenting with open-source libraries on-line, studying pixel artwork and fundamental sport design. I used this to construct a side-scroller prototype primarily based loosely on the observations and analysis we’d been gathering. I started collaborating with the sound artist “Gewgawly I” throughout that interval, and the mission shortly grew in scope.
Around 2020, after signing with Raw Fury, Aaron Gray got here on board to assist port the sport from a JavaScript library to Unity. The unimaginable conventional painter Jesse Jacobi joined up with our crew the next 12 months to help with pixel artwork. By the time the sport launched in March, we had a small staff and a supportive group. We’ve been spending the previous a number of months including quality-of-life options to the sport. These embrace a fight bypass; an “expert mode” for gamers who need more difficult puzzles; customized fonts; and gamepad assist that we very a lot hope console gamers will discover snug and intuitive.
Norco is on the market proper now with Game Pass on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC. We hope you take pleasure in it!
NORCO
Raw Fury
$14.99
$11.99
PC Game Pass
Xbox Game Pass
NORCO is a text-based level & click on journey that immerses the participant within the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an more and more surreal and distorted South Louisiana.
Your brother Blake has gone lacking within the aftermath of your mom’s dying. In the hopes of discovering him, you should observe a fugitive safety android by means of the refineries, strip malls, and drainage ditches of suburban New Orleans.
Immerse your self in a surreal and uncanny South Louisiana:
NORCO’s painterly and cinematic pixel artwork attracts the participant into its quotidian sci-fi world of disappearing swamplands, labyrinthine oil refineries, and different landscapes impressed by the titular city of Norco, Louisiana and different elements of Greater New Orleans. Sink into the wealthy subject recordings and sound design by fmAura and a driving, post-industrial digital rating from Gewgawly I.
Unravel a thriller in a world haunted by the previous and threatened by the longer term:
What begins as an easy seek for your lacking brother shortly spirals right into a multigenerational thriller. The traces between salvation, reminiscence, expertise, and nature bleed collectively right into a uniquely compelling, contemplative narrative rooted in Southern literature, pulp fiction, and level & click on journey video games each basic and modern.
Explore alongside sharply drawn characters with deep roots, wealthy backstories, and advanced motives:
A chaotic bayou pirate, bar-stool non-public detective, escaped safety android, and your stuffed childhood monkey will all provide help in an eroding and unsure world. Solve puzzles, combat your well beyond company safety goons, and infiltrate an influencer cult squatting an deserted mall on the outskirts of New Orleans.”
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