DevBlog #1
Setup
How much pain is a human mind able to endure before it shatters? The Shattering is a psychological thriller that takes place in the most dangerous place imaginable, the human mind itself. The first person perspective puts you right in the position of the protagonist, a broken man, racked with guilt, trapped inside his own created hell. You will feel his fear, anger and sorrow and it is up to you if you decide to escape or stay in it forever.
Our Goals
Create feelings. Make the player actually feel, not only what the protagonist feels, but to create their own sense of what's going on and how they would react. Using the player's decisions during gameplay, the game will take advantage of alterations of their memories to create a mood of fear and uncertainty. The player will also experience the world objects morphing or changing location, creating a feeling of uncertainty and confusion. We want to make the player feel sad, or happy, make them question their decisions, and life paths.
The Past
Working on The Shattering started actually years ago. We as a team have known each other for several years now and the general idea, the rough concept, existed for ages. The first iterations of the project were made in 2014 actually. It’s even possible to find some super early concept videos on Youtube somewhere. The idea evolved. Things changed. We can’t even count anymore how many times we started from scratch. But all this was definitely worth it. The process was needed to create The Shattering as it is today.
The Style
The Shattering is a nightmare in white, taking place in the austere rooms of the main character's own dream. The game relies on convincing us that a world filled with emptiness (white spaces) scares us more than a world shrouded in darkness, because why do horror games always have to be dark?
The whole environment is minimalistic, sterile and cold. All the world is drained of colour to portray the dreamy, hallucinatory state that the hero finds himself in. White and empty environments create a feeling being trapped in a world that only seemed familiar. The feeling of uncomfortableness grows stronger when the environment we are used to starts to shatter in front of our eyes, leaving us in a complete emptiness with no way out.
Who we are
We’re SuperSexySoftware, a little team of 5 people from Poland with members all over Europe. The Shattering is our first game we are going to publish later this year. As said before we’ve been developing this game for quite a while so we have a lot to share, what steps we took/we still take every day in the development.
The Log
We'll try to update the devblog on a regular base. We actually wanted to start it much earlier - but time. Time is always an issue. We'll give our best to make this devlog an interesting place with some posts about the development, its progress and some posts about stuff which already happened. And some posts with our random ideas and thoughts about the game.
Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shatteringgame
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Shattering-551122854972853/
Website: www.shattering-game.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shattering_game/?hl=en
For a start and a first impression, we want to present you the teaser video for our game, which you can see on the store page as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxRGwHlukb4&t=7s