I Know This Place..? News

Well, this is so cool! We have a record for the number of players in our pilot chapter in a week!
What else is interesting?
•Chapter II is in full development. You can find out more, participate and offer your items in our chat https://t.me/IKnowThisPlace (for RU - t.me/IKTP_RU )
•Our short film about the game in the qualifying rounds for 15+ festivals.
•VK PLAY approved the placement of the project with them. We are currently undergoing moderation (legal). The project will be available both there and on Steam. The pilot chapter will be free. While it's paid, you can influence the plot through the form at the end of the chapter. And you also support us very much!
Short film
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How did we film it?
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So we are invited to participate in the Steam Award. Support us - we are developing this project now without a budget, and at the same time we are looking for investments for better development of our universe.

What we have already done:
-the pilot chapter is already on Steam since April and it is in two languages ​​with full localization
-players influence the plot of Chapter 2 through the form at the end of Chapter 1. We have already collected data from the form and taken it into account!
-We shot 2 short films related to "I Know This Place..?"
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-we received feedback at the exhibition in Lisbon from representatives of Sony, DW and others. (We thank the publisher RBL LABS for showing the project and supporting the pilot chapter!)
-We were invited to the Dev GAMM and WN CONFERENCE exhibitions
-Reviews of the pilot chapter were made by top RU reviewers (Kuplinov and others)
-We have almost all very positive reviews on Steam
-We have added support for gamepad and Steam achievements
-In our public we hold competitions for players and spectators and add their items to the game. Players are involved in development!
-We have started making Chapter 2 (without a budget) and it will be much more interesting and complex than Chapter 1.
-We plan to release merch, items from the game, comics and podcasts. More short films on the development of this game are also planned.

This project will become a series and an entire universe. We've only just begun!
Vote for us on Steam, leave your reviews and join our public:
https://t.me/IKnowthisplace

We made a video about how we made our short film (a prequel to the game) for $50.
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Watch the film here
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Don’t forget that most of the news and invitation to participate in the development of Chapter II will be in our public page https://t.me/IKnowThisPlace

We have already started the modeling stage for chapter II.

And here is a recording of the stream. We showed how we selected answers from the form and how the voting took place.
https://www.youtube.com/live/yYpeZqSMzPA?si=r4jFcrSKZhhLtZZp

We immediately ask you to subscribe to our main public in telegram. Here we publish ALL the news about our project and invite you to participate (voice acting, adding your items to the game, etc.).
t.me/IKTP_RU - Russian
t.me/IKnowThisPlace - Global ENG


We attended the CG event CGVARKA 2023 in Minsk, among the cool guys from big cinema.



They positively assessed our project and the short prequel film that we shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir6Jf-nlMGw


We have completed the script for Chapter II. It will be powerful. We will have dialogues, more riddles, more locations. We learn more about Volodya's past. When creating, we took into account the wishes from the form that players filled out at the end of the chapter. Now we are starting to migrate the project to the UE 5.23 engine and modeling is already underway. There is a lot of work ahead. The gameplay will be more than 1 hour according to calculations.
We do everything with enthusiasm at the moment.

Please leave feedback about Chapter I. It is very important to us.

We are open to PARTNERS and INVESTMENTS on pleasant terms.

Chapter 2 is being developed. About half of the script for Chapter II has been written. It is written taking into account your choices, which you left on the form at the end of the game.
We have reviewed this form and your suggestions in the video

Based on its results, the majority voted that the hero would not be able to get out of the entrance and would follow the brownie higher up.
You can see more development details and chat with us in our public cart:
https://t.me/IKnowthisplace

And our short film “I Know This Place..?” was noticed by the guys who worked on “Cybervillage”. Awesome? Otherwise! We were invited to show the project at CG Varka in Minsk! We're heading there on the 4th.
In the meantime, support the short film with reviews on Youtube and reposts.

Also the short film "I Know This Place..?" and the second related short film "Necessary Radio" we sent to several festivals, including SuperShorts in New York.

Subscribe to us, chapter 1 will be free soon. We will also participate in the STEAM Award (starts November 21). Vote for us!