Broken Mind

Broken Mind Devblog

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Tomorrow is another big step for Broken Mind, as one of the team member will be presenting the game in Montreal at the Rialto theater!

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Broken Mind first trailer.

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The end is near. Tomorrow we will showcase our game at our school the CNAM-ENJMIN for our final presentation. Everything is in place, we hope the game will break some mind... Bad pun spotted, my apologies. 

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Slowly getting there... We’re now a bit more than 1 week away from the presentation of our vertical slice and here is an example of how our levels look so far!

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Broken Mind is a game with cubes. LOTS OF THEM! 

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A few days ago, the actress that will lend her voice to our main character came to record the dialogues and played an early prototype of our game. Fun fact is: while our other testers, who play video games on a daily basis, followed our puzzles and path, she discovered new ways of solving them. I guess you could call that thinking outside the box and a valuable lesson to never forget to also test your games outside of the gamer world.

Here’s a small video of the recording in the studio and how our sound designer mixed it to get the effect we wanted in the game.

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Let me introduce our game environment today: Tanwen’s inner world is an unreal place, made of memories but slowly disappearing. Neuron-like trees grow, slightly luminescent and some objects that really impacted her in a way or an other are scattered here and there. 

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While some decided to go to the international Comic Festival of Angoulême (Our dev town), some teammates decided to participate in the Global Game Jam two weeks ago with some friends.

The thematic this year was “Ritual” as you might know.

Meditate’em up: Judicaël and Lei created a very efficient versus game about magic ritual that you can play with your friend directly in your browser. http://globalgamejam.org/2016/games/meditate-em

Hypochondriax: Emilie, Chloë, Amélia and Janie decided to do something quite different and more... How to say? Quirky. As your doctor prescribes you pills each day you will have to ensure that you will understand the medical prescription correctly if you want to live long. http://globalgamejam.org/2016/games/hypochondriax

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The spirit monsters that you can encounter in the Broken Mind world. 

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A concept art of the final game render. You can see here Tanwen, the main game character, evolving in the fog and chasing it in order to go forward.

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One of our first concept art. Whenever the player activate a memory stone, the environment changes. Two memories will mix and new path will be found.

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The concept arf of Tanwen (right) and Leila (Left). Tanwen will use here light in order to find back Leila.

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Broken Mind

Broken Mind is a puzzle game that deals with something we all fear. The setting takes place in a strange world where the main character, Tanwen, explores fragments of her memory in order to find her long forgotten soulmate, Leila.

Tanwen will investigate her memory using a light that will dispel the fog around her. She will have to find out the different interactive elements inside her surroundings. Those interactive elements will be mainly stones that mix memories and change the environment and keys that move object in order to create new paths.