Turmoil Games is an independent Finnish game studio founded in 2008 by a diverse group of media professionals, today they announced Alpha Polaris, an upcoming point & click horror adventure game for Windows PC.



Alpha Polaris: a Horror Adventure Game will be available on Windows PC in mid-2010.

In our Gallery you can see some screenshots!

WooHoo! I love Horror adventures, sounds good to me!

Ana

Thanks Carla!

This sounds like my kind of game!

Very nice. Always glad to hear of someone new developing an adventure game. Look forward to a couple of those screenshots. I also hope the developer will chime in and explain a little about what they mean by "Streamlined Point & Click interface" and "hand-drawn dialogue portraits"

BTW...Thanks Carla

oOooooh !! Certainly sounds exciting !!

Thanks, Carla

Thanks Carla, it sounds great.

Thanks, Carla. This looks extremely interesting. I like the sound of "mature, character driven storyline."

Thanks Carla, Sounds like a game I want to play!

First screenshots added in our gallery, link in the main post at the top of this thread :winter:

This one sounds fab Thanks Carla.

Sounds good to me I am waiting!! It will go on my 'I want'list

This sounds good the screenshots are excellent.
definitely one to look forward to.

I am really looking forward to this game. I do hope the game designers will not put skill games into the game and have more conversational puzzles and logical ones. In my opinion I prefer games where I have people to converse with instead of solving a skill puzzles or fast reflexes or you die sort of thing.

Good old fashion ghost stories don't need skill puzzles or fast reflexes. I like to hear the voice of the main character I am playing as well as the characters I meet in a story. This is just my opinion but having heard about the new game it gives me hope someone might actually achieve a game that will give us thrills and chills of solving a haunting.

Hello everyone!

I'm one of the designers working on Alpha Polaris and I was really happy to run into this thread I noticed you had some questions and I will do my best to answer them below. I will drop by from time to time so please don't hesitate to ask more questions and give our team feedback on the project.



With streamlined point & click interface we mean our interface is clean and simple. The aim is to let you immerse yourself in the story and enjoy all aspects of the game instead of struggling with the controls. You will only need the left and right mouse button to move around and interact with items (we will release more information and screenshots about this in the future).

Alpha Polaris will be using hand-drawn dialogue portraits. We thought that only showing the 3D characters wouldn't convey the huge array of different emotions our characters express in the game and thus we opted to use 2D portraits. Something similar has been done for example in Hotel Dusk : Room 215 and Gabriel Knight : Sins of the Fathers.



I was hoping someone would ask about this Our puzzles are definitely on the logical and realistic side (not boring though!). We wanted the puzzles to merge into the story instead of sticking out like a sore thumb. We also have puzzles that revolve around the characters and interaction will be a key factor.

Hopefully these answers were helpful! I will be able to answer more thoroughly when we get closer to the games release. In the meantime you can ask more questions on this forum or visit us at: Turmoil Games

Best regards,
Veera

to GameBoomers Veera and thank you very much for answering the questions. It is always much better to hear from the Developers themselves instead of heresay. Hope you will be dropping in more often.

Good luck on the game!

Ana :yay12:

Thanks Veera and welcome to GameBoomers! :wave12:

Just the kind of answers a lot of us wanted to hear !! :bravo12:

Thanks, Veera :grin12:

Welcome Veera and thanks for the info's! :wave12:

Many thanks Veera, for providing more information about the game. It looks very promising!

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

It's wonderful to hear you are looking forward to our game! I will definitely be spending a lot of time on this forum since I noticed there are plenty of great discussions and like-minded people here!

- Veera

Veera, and thanks a lot for the info! This definitely sounds like a game I want to play. :thumbsUp12:

Hello again everyone!

I popped in to inform you that Alpha Polaris has now reached alpha stage:) For more info on this you can visit the Turmoil Games website.

We have also released some new screenshots that you can view here!

We would love to hear your comments and feedback! You can reach us on this thread or contact us via our website. For additional info and news you can join our facebook group here!

- Veera

Thank you for the update Veera, the new screenshots look very appealing, I'm looking forward to this game

If someone has already asked this question please forgive but I would like to know if this game will be relesed in a retail/online boxed version or downloaded? I have downloaded several games of late but I do perfer my games in boxes.