Hey people, I’m Zhenghua Yang (folks name me “Z”), and I’m the founder & government director at Serenity Forge, behind video games like Doki Doki Literature Membership Plus and The place the Water Tastes Like Wine. Our new title, Homestead Arcana, is a farming journey recreation pushed by ambiance and narrative. You play as a Witch who pioneers the vary that has been mysteriously corrupted with Miasma.
Our Inspiration
The core mission of Serenity Forge is that we deal with creating significant and emotionally impactful video games that problem the way in which you assume. We’re based mostly in Boulder, Colorado, which is surrounded by stunning mountains and huge prairies. Through the years, we have been actually impressed by the significant affect of Colorado tradition, mindset of environmental sustainability, in addition to the grandeur of the native panorama. We puzzled, “what would our nook of the world appear like if it have been the locus of some world-altering occasion?” That’s how Homestead Arcana was born.
Uncovering Historical past
In Homestead Arcana, you end up in a post-apocalyptic world. Over millennia, careless use of magic submerged the world in a sea of poisonous miasma. Life inside the clouds is sort of not possible. The folks and creatures that managed to outlive within the miasma grew to become warped, mysterious, twisted, and harmful. Attributable to this world disaster, many of the inhabitants have develop into fearful, reserved, and remoted: however not you. Utilizing spellcraft, mind, and grit, you set forth to revive the land for future generations. Via the course of the sport, you uncover the key behind the Miasma, are inclined to your crops and homestead to energy up your spells, and use nature’s magic to revive the land. You discover the submerged ruins and journey to uncover the reality behind the world.
Narrative Adventures
The world of Homestead Arcana is extraordinarily atmospheric, and we actually centered on narrative storytelling by way of environmental design. We had a very broad vary of inspirations, reminiscent of WPA posters and woodblock prints that seize the grandeur of landscapes within the basic creativeness of Americana, Miyazaki movies like Princess Mononoke, particularly the distinction between lush/stunning nature and the overgrown international wastes in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, the damaging and unforgiving nature of Made in Abyss, and in addition the unusual, effervescent, hard-to-pin down supernatural phenomena in novels/movies like Annihilation.
We needed to create a world the place gamers are immersed in constructing their very own house much like video games like My Time at Portia or Stardew Valley, however put them in an isolating and mysterious world much like video games like Shadow of the Colossus.
Along with the ambiance, we are also very character-centric. Our tales begin with the feelings of the folks in unusual conditions, and we tease out how they’d truly really feel in response to the unusual, super-natural challenges they face in the middle of the sport. In Homestead Arcana, you begin by arriving at your crumbling deserted farm along with your trusty acquainted, Huckleberry (who you possibly can pet!), voiced by Yuri Lowenthal. Remoted from civilization, however together with his assist, you slowly study the ropes and begin to settle into your life on the vary. Nonetheless, you slowly discover that Huckleberry is perhaps hiding much more than he makes seen, and that perhaps the 2 of you aren’t truly alone right here in spite of everything.
Farming and survival on their very own are already actually fascinating genres that include ample alternative for immersion, roleplay, and consequential participant alternative. In these sorts of video games, gamers need to discover and poke on the boundaries of the world, which is strictly the mindset we’re looking for to seize. In our recreation, this finally ends up main gamers from easy gathering and crafting to unearthing magical discoveries a whole lot of years within the making.
It’s in all probability finest for me to cease right here and allow you to discover the great world of Homestead Arcana your self. I’m so excited so that you can play Homestead Arcana on April twenty first on PC and Xbox Sequence X|S. Thanks a lot for supporting our imaginative and prescient of making significant and emotionally impactful video games!
Homestead Arcana
Skybound Video games
$19.99
Turn into a farming Witch and pioneer the vary that has been mysteriously corrupted with Miasma. Uncover the key behind its look, develop crops to energy up your spells, and use nature’s magic to heal the land.
Create Your Personal Farm
Construct your very personal homestead from the bottom up. Uncover new crops and have a tendency to your ever-growing backyard to heal the land and make it your personal.
Enterprise into the Miasma and Uncover Its Secrets and techniques
Survive the deathly Miasma, the place harmful warped creatures roam free, and discover it to search out its secrets and techniques.
Discover new highly effective crops and spells to develop your backyard
Convey again new crops and spells, develop your homestead, then journey even deeper into the corrupted land seeking new seeds, recipes, and information.
Turn into an All-Highly effective Witch and Wield Nature’s Magic to Heal the World
Faucet into the energy of nature to craft spells and prepared your self for the mysterious challenges forward as you’re employed along with your pleasant cat acquainted, Huckleberry to beat again the deathly Miasma.
