From the transition that comes when young people rise up to the upheaval of a small town that is forced to stay in touch with the modern world.īeacon Pines nostalgically expressed the idea that you feel adventurous because you break the rules as a group of kids. There are many themes that revolve around the game centered around change. Thankfully, we discovered that there are quite many people who find that combination of cute and creepy appealing or at least intriguing.īrent: Starting with a storybook feel gives us lots of interesting places to learn. Matt: Were aware of the fact that Beacon Pines looks like a kids game, even though it isn’t. How do you take the time to challenge the right audience to see the game? There are all sorts of adult moments and themes, but the art is fairly storybook-like.
After we poured into an interaction, softer the talking portraits became as a fabled way to show more of the characters their expressions and gestures, otherwise wouldn’t exist with all the sprites. Since all the places to explore look like pictures in a book just feel natural, and fits into the entire storybook storybook.Įven the visual novel has a very strong connection to the art. The idea is a way to turn a book around the world. We wanted that art to reflect this by not showing you everything and fading the edges, just showing you the parts that are a long-standing mystery for little Luka. This story is born on a childhood summer adventure, if you read your memories back, you won’t remember everything, just the things you were looking for as a child. The direction for the world is inspired by mini dioramas. Ilse: The style of art inspired by a range of different things. Who is responsible for this art? What inspired them? When the story reached that point of complexity, it seemed like adding or changing a part of it – it was like placing a piece on top of a precarious Jenga board.īeacon Pines look beautiful. There were many difficult design and story decisions, as a result, but I was struck by the simple design click. I figured out a big complicated diagram of all the story interconnections, so so I can’t help but think the effect would be good. Matt: This was probably the hardest part of the game. How do you write a story with such intricate twists? How do you ensure that players understand this narrative? One of the hardest part of the game was not just exploring all these questions but also narrowing it down into a great deal of possibility space to make it the best version of the game.īrent: Once we began playing about the game with Charms, we realized that we could make a game that explored all the ways in which a story could go. Are these words here in the world? Do you speak a different word each day? Are the words single-use? Do they require any words in any way? It goes on and on. Matt: The original idea for the mechanic was the question: How might a narrative game work if you insert a single word that changes the context of a sentence, instead of selecting from an additional set of responses during the given conversation? It turns out that simple question has actually resulted in a lot of possible directions for a game mechanic. What grabbed us about Beacon Pines was the charms – artifacts that represent words and terms and then used to change the story. This is the best way to turn the story around. By exploring the city, you’ll find charms with coins on them. Some bizarre things happened in the town of Beacon Pines, so you must stay at it, or with your friends to get to the bottom of it. You play both in books for mysterious characters and a main character named Luka. Matt: Beacon Pines is a cute adventure game. Ilse Harting is the lead artist of the show.īrent Calhoun’s co-writer has written a letter with her.Ĭould you tell us a quick shot of the game? Matt Meyer is a creative director, a co-writer and an artist. Hello, please talk about your role in Beacon pines. Colour us lucky, then we have the chance to do that. The game Beacon Pines would’ve liked to have an interview with its creators, given the many questions we have about its creators and their reactions. And not only are you breathing a little further a world of horrors and dark themes, fruity language and loss of innocence are all evident.Īgain, it’s not your average adventure game. It’s a cute narrative adventure that might be a Halloween Halloween event. In my interest, Beacon Pines changed my mind from the moment that a demo was delivered to PC. Let’s have a look at a comparison before. On the Steam page, Beacon Pines is characterized as Twin Peaks and Winnie the Pooh.
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