The Rebirth Of Franklin Albrecht

Blog for the indie game The Rebirth Of Franklin Albrecht. Prepare yourself to a compelling plot, full of a Creature's internal struggles through its hallucinations, what reviving a body by using other corpses may bring and how a man is brought to become a monster.

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New plans, new team.

Hello! Some time has passed since we wrote here.

As some people may know from recent updates on other platforms, this version of the game is not being developed anymore, because of new and bigger plans for TROFA. There was a change in the engine and our entire approach to this project, and we're currently working on a tech demo. In the meantime, we had time to write a screenplay for the first arcs, do a Game Design Document and group some concept art as well, to give our material to potential collaborators. We always knew, in the end, that we couldn't do this alone.

We are searching for more creative minds for the team and are willing to amply our contact circle. As you can see, it’s a way less specific search compared to last time: what we expect from this search are people who can participate in this project from a creative point of view and share their ideas and opinion with us. They can do that as a proofreader, writer, narrative consultant, game design consultant, artist...

Here are some slides that present the project in-detail, in its most recent state: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFr_tNdxy4/AzBXyARfiG845GD2erchsw/view?website#2:presentation-of-the-project

Right now we are a team of five people working on the tech demo: Pao, writing and management; Ele, character designer (+ general artistic and management support); Sarry, programmer; Freez, UI Art; Wagnard, sound designer.

If you are interested and willing to contact us, we will share some essential documents for the project’s understanding (Screenplay, Game Design Document and a Concept Art PDF). But before that, we would like to chat a bit with you to see how and if we can develop a collaboration together and agree on some essential matters.

Thank you for any kind of feedback and hope this new direction can excite you and, when the game will be out, give you the best experience possible by showing its full potential.

-P&E (former Ludi Tarantula)

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Frankie’s first encounter in the Limbo: Franz!

We put this gif just to show off some progress :)

This scene was so short but we put it together in... Months. Months for a 4 minute scene, and it was not just for the amount of new resources we had to produce.

Well, here’s the results of our hard work!

The full preview can be found on the (new!) official The Rebirth Of Franklin Albrecht site where you can also find some other additional surprises...

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We think it's time to introduce you to this very strange world (featuring: screens from the old project!)

Hi! In a few days you will see the preview of The rebirth of Franklin Albrecht that we have been promising for some time. We apologize for the wait, but between some difficulties and unforeseen events we had to make sure we could make the best of it, even if it was only a small scene.

We thought we'd start slowly opening up to anyone interested in the project and fill the wait with a post of curiosity and clarification about one of the game's most equivocal concepts...

That is... The world of the dead.

Does it really exist or is it just an illusion?

This is a concept that has been present since we presented the poster last fall. In fact, it will also be seen in part in the preview we will show you.

Although this project started being conceived in 2018, it was some time later, when we rewrote the script, that we felt it was vital to include a more solid structure that would characterize the concept to the point of turning it into the actual world of the dead. 

In reality, with all the changes that have been made in the presentation of this project, we may have mixed things up a bit.

But now let's get down to business. What exactly is this all about?

For starters, all the people you see in the poster, behind Frankie, there are not real. Or rather, not really. Most of them, beyond the flimsy white souls, are people who really existed but whom Frankie recognizes as deceased, barring two single exceptions. The first exception is Oliver, the boy on the left, hovering between life and death. The second is Albert, a boy Frankie met when he attended boarding school in town for a while.

In other words, Frankie's unstable mental state has spawned a complex world in which the souls of deceased relatives inhabit his home.

How does he access it? 

Simply, by leaving the candelabra behind and venturing through his own home without it.

So, from what you have been able to understand, the "realm of the dead" is nothing more than a facet of what Frankie's hallucinations are. It is nothing more than the same house, where everything becomes dark and changes appearance....

(These two screens will be part of the preview we've been showing since late July to reveal the game's redesign process. The UI is still unfinished.)

Moreover, here you can meet the souls of deceased relatives and other guests of the house. 

It is a world with its own rules, roles are well defined. 

Disturbing the quiet, however, is a group of young men whose bodies have been buried and hidden by Abrham Albrecht, Franklin Albrecht's father.

They wish to find and kill what they call the Creature.

The reason? Take a guess...

So this post was meant to be a small introduction to the realm of the dead. We would have many other things to tell you, but for that we look forward to letting you experience the story for yourself. If it will have a good feedback, in the future we could do more.

I would like to remind you in fact that this project has been going on for much longer than you can imagine, the script is already complete and part of the story has already been made in the form of cutscenes in the very first version of the game, the screens you've seen here.

This is now a story waiting to be told, we hope to have captured your interest and to have the opportunity to satisfy your curiosity.

See you for the release of the previews!

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Just finished the Inventory UI animation!

...It’s actually only on After Effects but... We’ll make it work in-game :)

It still isn’t shaded and refined, we still have to write “Items” and “Papers” in the boxes (because the inventory will be divided in these two sections) but... We like the animation so far!

PS: Tumblr seems to not like the colors of the UI so... They are a bit ugly in this GIF. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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Important updates!

We're almost done with the restyling of the The rebirth of Franklin Albrecht, after which we'll be able to resume producing the actual content.

We expect to publish the official website towards the end of the month...Preview is coming up!

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BEFORE AND AFTER RE-STYLING.

Some of you may know that this project is in development from 2018, but only in this year we are working on having a more precise style for The Rebirth Of Franklin Albrecht. The map below, the newer one, is not colored yet: we will patiently wait for the colorist to finish it!

We hope to show you a preview of the game soon!

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The library! Together with research text and lots of documents about the Albrecht family, there will be a very special book...

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We have been a bit dead on social networks in this period...

But I'll tell you, we are preparing LOTS OF THINGS for this summer. I will tell you two of them: we are re-styling our official site and, last but not least... A preview of The Rebirth Of Franklin Albrecht!

If you want to know more about how it's going with it, follow our Ko-Fi page... And if you want, leave a small donation to us if you believe in the project!

Just wait a little more! We will come back as powerful as ever!

-EleRantula (Ludi Tarantula Team)

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Our protagonist, Frankie!

Here’s his character sheet: no spoilers!

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The first Ludi Tarantula project "The Rebirth Of Franklin Albrecht" It gets close, for some elements, to the Horror RPG genre, even though we are trying something bigger. We still have to release a demo that is, as you saw, at 60% of development.

It's a story-rich game, so prepare yourself to a compelling plot, full of a Creature's internal struggles through its hallucinations, what reviving a body by using other corpses may bring, how a man is brought to become a monster and how another man-made Creature, very different from the one in Mary Shelley's classic, relates to the external world.

Even though we’re on “social media hiatus”, we are currently experimenting a bit with Tumblr!

(Possible poster remake for graphic improvement)