Two Sides of a Dream: Building the Worlds of Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

Hello! We’re so happy to be launching Harmony: The Fall of Reverie on Xbox Series X|S right now. It’s a narrative journey with two colourful worlds, a solid of eclectic characters, and a charming story we hope you’ll all take pleasure in!

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie was born out of a single idea: having the ability to see forthcoming narrative branches and performing on them accordingly by means of your required selections. From this mechanic got here the concept of desires as gas for future actions, a lens by means of which to see and dissect the complicated world we stay in, and look after. We knew from the starting that the sport can be set in a barely futuristic world, shut sufficient to ours to allow us to sort out up to date points but distant sufficient to lend us extra inventive freedom.

Building Reverie, the house of historical godlike beings often called Aspirations, was the subsequent logical step to tie collectively the gameplay mechanics and narrative intention, but it surely was additionally the hardest one. Reverie and the Aspirations have been meant to present Polly (and also you) a broader, nearly metaphysical view of the world.

But we didn’t need this realm to really feel overly divine: it wanted to be fragile, withering in the face of capitalism’s dreamless system. It was additionally our answer to bridge the hole between this far-reaching gameplay, fitted to huge selections and even greater penalties, and the intimate story we needed to inform.

We determined to color Brittle (the actual world) as a brilliant, vivid world the place social points are hidden from plain sight. On the different hand, Reverie’s lands are chilly, arid, and scattered with ruins akin to our previous civilizations, echoing the absence of desires in Brittle. It all serves the concept that desires are the place hope will be discovered when all appears misplaced, the place nice issues will be born from vacancy. Thus, Reverie serves as a set of paths to assist Polly navigate her difficult life, and the Aspirations as guides to assist her discover her personal voice.

We based mostly the Aspirations off a few mythological and psychological theories, amongst that are the Spiral Dynamics and popular culture classics like “Sandman” and “Inside Out.” They wanted to be damaged and really feel actual, not like all-powerful Greek gods. It helped give them extra character and pen them as magical, erratic beings who, regardless of being immortals, are nonetheless scuffling with their very own neighborhood. Their struggles mirror what occurs in Brittle and assist bind Polly’s quest with that of the Aspirations.

We discovered it tough to flesh out two worlds concurrently with our narrative system. The issue lay in balancing narration between Brittle and Reverie, and it took some iteration earlier than we determined to make Brittle the principal setting of the sport. So, on the events when Reverie’s story takes the stage, it feels necessary – weaving threads that have an effect on humanity – and intimate, tied as it’s to Polly’s private historical past.

We hope you take pleasure in the story and draw as a lot inspiration from it as Polly does from Reverie all through her journey. You can play Harmony: The Fall of Reverie beginning right now on Xbox Series X|S.

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie

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The destiny of humanity is at stake.
Use your present of clairvoyance to see into the future and cease an apocalypse that threatens the steadiness between your world and the deities’.

In the very close to future…
When Polly returns house after a few years overseas to search for her lacking mom, she rapidly realizes that her hometown has drastically modified. A megacorporation named MK is utilizing its energy to regulate the inhabitants, and her neighborhood is at risk.  

She quickly discovers that she has a present of clairvoyance that connects her to Reverie, the realm of the Aspirations of Humanity: Glory, Bliss, Power, Chaos, Bond, and Truth.

In this world, Polly turns into Harmony, an Oracle who has the energy to decide on the Aspiration that can finally rule over Reverie and restore the delicate steadiness between the deities’ world and ours.   

The destiny of humanity is at stake. To which future do you aspire?

DECIDE YOUR DESTINY 

As Polly, or Harmony, every motion you’re taking will have an effect on each worlds and ship you down sprawling narrative paths. See into the future and discover the penalties of alternatives in the Augural, a sport board and visible illustration of Polly’s present of foresight.

In pursuing whichever future you need, you’ll additionally bond with and acquire crystals from the Aspirations. These will unlock completely different paths at necessary crossroads that can change how the thread of the story unravels, and finally the destiny of humanity.

FIND THE NEW HEART OF HUMANITY 

Whichever Aspiration comes to guide Reverie, with Harmony’s assist, will even develop into the coronary heart of humanity. Their character and elegance of rule will change Reverie whereas additionally giving the folks of our world a new course too: when the hyperlink between worlds is stronger, Reverie has a greater affect on the state of our world. 

Glory, Bliss, Power, Chaos, Bond, and Truth are all wildly completely different entities with their very own distinct personalities, targets, and opinions on the way to make issues higher. You’ll get to know every of them as go to Reverie in your desires as Harmony, however solely you recognize greatest – as Polly – what your world wants.    

A COLORFUL WORLD  

As you play, experience inventive course that’s brilliant, vibrant, and futuristic. Immerse your self in the each day life of a Mediterranean metropolis and get to know its folks, with a solid of characters who’re absolutely voiced and animated. Enjoy a fascinating soundtrack by award-winning composer, Lena Raine.