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Quantic Dream has partnered with developer Parallel Studio to publish Underneath the Waves, a story recreation that explores the depth of the ocean and human grief.
The businesses unveiled the title on the Gamescom Opening Night time Reside occasion headed by Geoff Keighley in Cologne, Germany, forward of the massive in-person Gamescom expo.
A poetic narrative-driven journey, the title is being developed in partnership with the Surfrider Basis Europe to help the group’s ecological message and ocean conservancy actions.
The sport is a single-player narrative-driven journey recreation releasing on PC, Xbox Collection X/S, Xbox
One, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 in 2023.
Within the recreation, the participant will dive into the depths of the North Sea to discover a transferring and poetic underwater journey concerning the engulfing energy of grief. Set in a techno-futuristic Seventies, gamers will observe Stan, an expert diver working for an oil firm, going through the isolation of the deep sea as he begins to expertise a wierd collection of occasions, far beneath the waves.
“That is probably the most private and intense work we have now ever performed as a studio,” stated Ronan Coiffec, CEO
and recreation director of Parallel Studio, in an announcement. “We’re an indie group of a dozen members, and all the things we need to convey is poured into this recreation, very passionately. From artwork to writing, from sound design to tech, all of us acquired an opportunity to depart our mark on Underneath The Waves. We actually hope you’ll prefer it as a lot as we cherished creating it.”
To assist ship this underwater story, Quantic Dream supplied Parallel Studio entry to numerous expertise
and artistic instruments reminiscent of movement seize, voice recording, animation, high quality assurance, localization
and extra. This partnership marks the primary time Quantic Dream supplies help for a fellow French
studio, each being Paris-based.
Guillaume de Fondaumière, co-CEO of Quantic Dream, stated in an interview with GamesBeat stated the corporate was very selective about its option to publish a third-party recreation. The corporate had checked out 20 to 30 video games a month earlier than it lastly selected to work with Parallel Studio. De Fondaumière stated the corporate offered help reminiscent of movement seize companies, and it helped Parallel Studio be extra formidable than it anticipated to be with the title.
“Again in 2021 once we introduced our partnership with Parallel Studio, we couldn’t anticipate gamers
to find their work,” stated de Fondaumière. “At present, we’re thrilled to current Underneath The Waves to the world, a novel expertise created by a really passionate indie group right here in Paris. We’ve been capable of work carefully collectively to provide all of them means they wanted to create a recreation that lived as much as their expectations, and obtain their most formidable mission up to now. We’re additionally very proud to help Surfrider Basis Europe, whose message and actions are core to the theme of Underneath The Waves.”
As a love letter to the ocean, Underneath The Waves shines a light-weight on the significance of ocean preservation, because of its vibrant sea life and refined messages shared all through the gameplay expertise. Parallel Studio and Quantic Dream are proud to announce a partnership with Surfrider Basis Europe, a non-profit affiliation chargeable for the safety and enhancement of lakes, rivers, oceans, waves, and coastlines.
“We’re extraordinarily pleased as a result of we’re going to publish the primary full-fledged recreation that we’re
engaged on with a third-party developer from begin to end,” de Fondaumière stated. “It’s been a really fascinating expertise supporting the event group and serving to them form the expertise that that they had in thoughts.”
The businesses are very shut collectively in Paris, and so it was simpler to work collectively on the mission.
Quantic Dream is engaged to financially help the group by way of a donation and can actively perform actions to help the trigger throughout and after the marketing campaign. By way of in-game activations, cross-communication, and inside actions, each studios goal to amplify Surfrider’s ecological message and ocean safety actions.
“We’re delighted to associate with Quantic Dream for the discharge of Underneath the Waves,” stated
Pénélope Giroud, advertising and communication supervisor of Surfrider Basis Europe, in an announcement. “For 30 years, Surfrider Basis Europe has been engaged on defending the oceans, by making most people conscious of all of the threats that weigh on them. The sport provides us an enormous alternative to coach gamers on its fragility, particularly by way of the affect of offshore drilling, but additionally on varied different matters. We’re happy to help the sport’s creators in getting the precise and most impactful messages throughout and making certain that they match completely into the sport’s storytelling. We’re wanting ahead to its launch.”
Underneath The Waves will immerse gamers in beautiful environments, the place exploration of caves, wrecks and underwater wildlife can be key to guiding Stan by way of an unexpected collection of occasions, deeper and deeper into the abyss. Following mysterious manifestations of his reminiscences, Stan may have the tough selection to remain misplaced within the depths endlessly or break away to the floor.
Go to UnderTheWavesGame.com to remain updated on the most recent information concerning the recreation.
Quantic Dream is a artistic and unbiased online game studio created in 1997 by David Cage. The studio makes a speciality of creating unique experiences primarily based on interactive emotion. Its video games embrace Heavy Rain, Past: Two Souls, and Detroit: Grow to be Human.
Parallel Studio is a French unbiased online game studio primarily based in Paris, based by Coiffec, Nicolas Bredin and Sébastien Renard. The studio beforehand labored on the award-winning indie recreation White Night time, on Darkish Days, pioneers of narrative horror video games in digital actuality, and not too long ago on EqqO, a poetic recreation with a multi-layered story. The group engaged on the sport has simply 12 folks. It’s coming for the PC and console in 2023.
“Underneath the Waves takes place underwater, and it’s about the great thing about the ocean. It’s a very poetic story that questions us as human beings on the way in which we deal with our planet,” de Fondaumière stated. “And that was one thing that we had been actually interested in as we talked about how the group wished to deal with this crucial query of how the planet is at risk. We thought it had a common story that might contact fairly a broad viewers.”
As for the trailer, de Fondaumière stated, “We wish folks to actually dive into the environment underneath the waves. It’s a reasonably slow-paced trailer the place you’re discovering the surroundings the place Stan, the character, lives underneath the water. There are totally different machines to manage and navigate deep within the ocean. You perceive there may be additionally a really poetic surreal story behind what’s on the floor. It’s a narrative about grief and surviving tough circumstances you can face. It’s a really profound story.”
He stated that Stan’s remoted standing seems to be self imposed, and whereas he’s engaged on a routine upkeep mission, he begins experiencing occasions that set off a surreal determination.
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