Check out the trailer here.



Happy Gaming!

Ana

Thanks, Ana. I like the music.

Ana

Looks interesting, thanks, BrownEyedTigre

Thanks Ana. Will check it out.

Thanks for the post, Ana!

I don’t want to waste everyone’s time with a ton of self-promotion on this site; because I’d rather just chat about adventure games themselves, so I’ll do this one thread and periodically update with big news from time to time but I’ll keep most of that to our blog, newsletter, and social media feeds.

Anyway, “Arkhangel: The House of the Seven Stars” is a point & click built in Unity3D with the Adventure Creator system and it’s based off of a short story that I was plunking around with over 10 years ago. I would work on it for awhile, realize that I didn’t really know how to tell that narrative, and put it away.

It was in 2012 when I was playing through a bunch of old Sierra games that it finally clicked. I COULD tell the story the way I wanted to in an adventure game setting. I gave my brother a ring, I hashed out the story outline and the design doc in a couple of months and began prototyping.

I had a bunch of my own systems in place but they were all rudimentary and…to be frank…not all that great. Once Adventure Creator was released, all bets were off. I’ve been in active production on this thing in my off-hours for a couple of years. This involved building out locations, creating levels, tweaking systems, building shaders, texturing, modeling, animating, etc, etc, etc…

While I still have a long way to go, I’m at a point now that I feel comfortable showing it off and talking about it a bit more.

Thanks for the read!
-Zack

Thanks Ana.

Zack!

Thanks for the update. Good luck on the progress of the game.

to GameBoomers Zack!

Ana

to GameBoomers, Zack. I was interested to read your background information on the game.

Hi Zack
The game looks fantastic. I'm looking forward to it. Keep up the excellent work.

Cathy

Zack. The game does indeed look fantastic. Looking forward to more info as it progresses.

Thanks so much for the great support, all!

If you want to keep up to date on a more regular basis, feel free to follow us:

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Hope you all are having a great week and if you celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving, I hope you eat yourself silly!

I must be missing it but I don't see any info on whether this is a First Person or Third Person game. Maybe I have over looked it somewhere.

Hey GreyFuss!

It's Third Person. Some puzzles take a first person perspective, but it's primarily fixed camera with the player moving around in scene. Once you hit the scene's edge, it'll either shift to a new camera perspective or track the player's movement.

I actually just updated the game info on the page to make sure people knew that it's Third Person. Thanks for that!

-z

Thanks, Zack!

Ana

Going to keep my eye on this one... thanks for the info

Thank you Zack

Thanks for the info Zack, and good luck with your game!

to GameBoomers, Zack Continued success with the game, it seems like a must buy for me.

Zack, good luck with your game. I'm looking forward to playing it!

*snorts awake*

AHHH!!

So...Um...I've been quiet lately...a little *too* quiet, if you ask me.

Just wanted to ping everyone about Arkhangel. It's still going strong and we are looking to (hopefully) release at the end of this year. I'm past alpha and pretty much at a "beta" stage. I'm working with the composer now to finalize musicians and recording sessions, doing some finalizing tweaks to puzzles and gameflow (although, you can play the game all the way through now), starting work on cinematics (eesh...that's going to be the time consuming one at this point), and crushing bugs.

We recently overhauled our webpage:
www.winternightgames.com

We also released the official artwork for the game:
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/59...Art_Full_v2.png

We're getting there!

Great to hear it's still being worked on! Looking good!

Ana

Hey all!

I put together a quick gameplay teaser for Arkhangel. Check it out if you get the chance!

This is already using some old footage but I got to the point where I was updating things so rapidly, that I needed to say "ENOUGH" and go through what I had and put something together. Plus, it was just good to take a step back from development and do something linear.

Gameplay Teaser - https://vimeo.com/226576976

Official Page - https://winternightgames.com/arkhangel/

Hope you all are doing well!
-Zack

THanks, Zack!

Ana