Hiya! I’m Yuts, a member of the sport improvement collaborative Geography of Robots.
We launched our first recreation Norco in March and at the moment are bringing it to consoles with the assistance of our writer, Uncooked 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 demise solely to find that her brother has gone lacking. By 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 another current. We’ve been shocked and very appreciative of the reception that the sport’s been receiving, having gained the first-ever Tribeca Video games Award in 2021, in addition to the “Lengthy Function” award at Berlin A Maze fest.
The sport obtained its begin as a casual geography undertaking following Hurricane Katrina. An in depth good friend and I have been touring round South Louisiana, taking images and conducting interviews to grasp how the storm impacted our residence. I’m from Norco, so I used to be significantly centered on each the city and the encompassing “River Parish” area. We carried out this undertaking from round 2007 to 2010. From there, I began experimenting with open-source libraries on-line, studying pixel artwork and fundamental recreation design. I used this to construct a side-scroller prototype primarily based loosely on the observations and analysis we’d been amassing. I started collaborating with the sound artist “Gewgawly I” throughout that interval, and the undertaking rapidly grew in scope.
Round 2020, after signing with Uncooked Fury, Aaron Grey 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 point the sport launched in March, we had a small workforce and a supportive group. We’ve been spending the previous a number of months including quality-of-life options to the sport. These embody a fight bypass; an “knowledgeable mode” for gamers who need tougher puzzles; customized fonts; and gamepad help that we very a lot hope console gamers will discover snug and intuitive.
Norco is obtainable proper now with Recreation Cross on Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One and PC. We hope you get pleasure from it!
NORCO
Uncooked Fury
$14.99
$11.99
PC Recreation Cross
Xbox Recreation Cross
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 demise. Within the hopes of discovering him, it’s essential to comply with a fugitive safety android via 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 components of Better New Orleans. Sink into the wealthy discipline 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 long run:
What begins as an easy seek for your lacking brother rapidly 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 traditional and modern.
Discover alongside sharply drawn characters with deep roots, wealthy backstories, and complicated 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. Clear up puzzles, combat your well beyond company safety goons, and infiltrate an influencer cult squatting an deserted mall on the outskirts of New Orleans.”
