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The Pixel Hunt
In Ithaca, Penelope's roadworthy travel originates pinch a extremity astatine a state station, a telephone to a friend, and nan find of a dude hog-tied and blindfolded successful nan trunk of her car. She seems amazed by nan situation, but she closes nan trunk, gets successful nan beforehand spot and drives.
Ithaca is simply a road-trip RPG from The Pixel Hunt, nan French workplace down nan heartbreaking communicative crippled Bury Me, My Love, and it's astir much than conscionable emotion nan breeze done nan unfastened model and singing on to your favourite jams. The game's protagonist, Penelope, is simply a 30-something biology lawyer who's fed up pinch a strategy that protects firm polluters, and she's joined nan Earth Protection Association successful an effort to conflict backmost successful a caller way. She's connected her measurement to a spot called Ithaca to meet different members of nan EPA erstwhile she discovers nan leader of a immense petroleum institution successful her trunk. Apparently, she didn't put him there.
The Pixel Hunt
The crippled plays retired from nan driver's seat, wherever Penelope tin look for clues astir what's she's really doing, and besides telephone and matter her friends and family. Penelope has to dress she isn't getting swept up successful a large-scale eco-terrorism crippled while besides navigating chats pinch nan EPA organizers, building up interpersonal and deductive skills. There are much than 30 NPCs for Penelope to talk to, pinch a afloat formed of sound actors.
The landscapes that capable nan windshield are procedurally generated scenes of upwind farms, sprawling bridges, upland passes and cleanable bluish waterways, and nan crippled ends successful 1 of 7 last destinations. Players are capable to dictate Penelope's way pinch their communicative choices, and yet determine whether she completes nan EPA's plans aliases backs retired astatine nan past minute.
The Pixel Hunt
"We're not making Ithaca to springiness answers," Pixel Hunt founder Florent Maurin said successful nan game's Day of nan Devs uncover video. "We're making it because we're surviving done questions that consciousness progressively difficult to debar astir power, astir violence, astir nan world we unrecorded successful and really acold we're fresh to spell to take sides it. About what still feels imaginable erstwhile thing seems to activity anymore. And we dream Ithaca will beryllium 1 measurement to beryllium pinch those questions for a while, cautiously and comfortably from wrong a car that keeps moving forward."
Ithaca is tentatively scheduled to travel retired successful 2027, and there's a Kickstarter for nan crippled unrecorded today, on pinch a Steam page.
