We’ve been working with the innovators over at Cubus Games for about two years now, reviewing and letting you Towelites know about their amazing interactive gamebooks. With titles like Sinister Fairground and Heavy Metal Thunder, they’ve set themselves apart from traditional game publishers; giving fans a truly unique and interactive experience. They intend to keep up their amazing work in their next title, Deadman Diaries, which will be out on July 7th! Read more about this game after the jump.
Cubus Games launches “Deadman Diaries”
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An innovative gamebook thriller in the form of a personal diary
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Readers can choose between trying to save the character or sending him to the largest imaginable number of deaths
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“Deadman Diaries” is an introduction to Gamebook genre (an evolution of popularly known “Chooseyourownadventure”), so the game has been designed to be quick and easy to read. Likewise, its creators tell us that “this story is staged away from the typical worlds of scifi and fantasy to present a contemporary ‘black’ and neonoir thriller drawing from referents like the cinema of Scorsese and the Coen Brothers, and TV series such as The Sopranos, without ignoring the influence of the most classical cinema ‘noir’ and the thrillers of James M.Cain and Patricia Highsmith”.
Great care has therefore been taken over the presentation and the graphic appearance with classical style illustrations by Gerard Freixes, which stage the different endings,its own soundtrack with airs of free jazz composed by Quim Garreta and Alex Almirall, and views of “Round About Midnight” by Miles Davis.
Using the form of a personal diary, something new in the gamebooks world, readers are immersed in the life of John Riggs, a bank worker who has to pay off a gambling debt that will lead him to different illegal, and often lethal, situations.
“Readers are given different options and can choose between trying to save the character or killing him off in as many ways as possible.”
“Deadman Diaries” is available in English, Spanish and Catalan for iOS and Android mobile devices.
The special launch price is $0.99 / €0.99 / £0.99 both on AppStore and GooglePlay.
