Forest of Sleep — An Experimental Storytelling Game
Developer Twisted Tree is combining centuries-old ideas of folk tale plot, structure and character with frameworks for procedurally-generated stories
Forest of Sleep is a procedurally-generated graphical storytelling game in which players create their own folktale adventures. The game responds as players make decisions, resulting in a satisfyingly different and surprising new story each time.
The game begins with children telling stories around a campfire. They go to sleep, and awaken in the fantasy world of one of their stories. And so begins the adventure.
Inspired by Eastern European folktales, Forest of Sleep is delightfully hand-illustrated and animated, with a beautiful soundtrack of specially-commissioned dynamic folk music from the region, and carefully and engagingly paced.
The game will be released on Windows and Mac, and hopefully on iOS. Regarding a launch date, Twisted Tree has said the following: We don’t know yet, possibly late 2017, early 2018. Now add ⅓ onto that time.
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