Agustin
21-11-2005, 05:07 AM
Hello everybody!
My name is Agustin and I'm the co-founder of Nucleosys, a young company aiming to produce hopefully many adventure games in the future. Our upcoming horror game Scratches has been in production for over two years. It is a point-and-click, first-person adventure and has an old-school feel to it. The plot is as classic as it gets: in a style reminiscent of 70's horror movies, you play the role of a writer, Michael Arthate, that arrives to a newly acquired Victorian mansion to finish work on his new book. He slowly becomes very interested on the past of house and the people that used to live in there - the Blackwood family - a past that happens to involve a murder and some odd happenings. Nothing inside Blackwood manor is what it seems though, and the plot quickly turns into a rollercoaster of twists and turns sooner than you can say "strange noises in the basement".
Scratches is a very atmospheric game influenced by the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and those brilliant Hammer Horror films. It is expected to be a challenging and fun adventure - puzzles won't be there to get in the way but to help in moving the story forward. It is also expected to be a very scary journey ;D There is a cinematic feel to the game which is greatly in part to the outstanding soundtrack created by Cellar of Rats. The composer will be around so you can bug him with questions as well (just watch out for the tentacles).
Working on this game has been a tremendous experience, if a bit painful and stressing, but everything is coming to an end very soon!
There have been actually quite some materials released during production, the most recent being:
Demo: http://www.nucleosys.com/files/scratches-demo-en.exe
Trailer: http://www.nucleosys.com/files/scratches-trailer-en.wmv
The following are older, short demos (or "interactive teasers" as we liked to call them) featuring gameplay not to be found in the final game. The first teaser is almost a curiosity by now, as is very old and not representative of the game at all:
Second Teaser: http://www.nucleosys.com/files/scratches-t2.exe
First Teaser: http://www.nucleosys.com/files/Scratches_Teaser.exe
So there you go! That should be enough to get you started... hope you have fun with us! We are nice, if a bit strange, group of people :-X
My name is Agustin and I'm the co-founder of Nucleosys, a young company aiming to produce hopefully many adventure games in the future. Our upcoming horror game Scratches has been in production for over two years. It is a point-and-click, first-person adventure and has an old-school feel to it. The plot is as classic as it gets: in a style reminiscent of 70's horror movies, you play the role of a writer, Michael Arthate, that arrives to a newly acquired Victorian mansion to finish work on his new book. He slowly becomes very interested on the past of house and the people that used to live in there - the Blackwood family - a past that happens to involve a murder and some odd happenings. Nothing inside Blackwood manor is what it seems though, and the plot quickly turns into a rollercoaster of twists and turns sooner than you can say "strange noises in the basement".
Scratches is a very atmospheric game influenced by the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and those brilliant Hammer Horror films. It is expected to be a challenging and fun adventure - puzzles won't be there to get in the way but to help in moving the story forward. It is also expected to be a very scary journey ;D There is a cinematic feel to the game which is greatly in part to the outstanding soundtrack created by Cellar of Rats. The composer will be around so you can bug him with questions as well (just watch out for the tentacles).
Working on this game has been a tremendous experience, if a bit painful and stressing, but everything is coming to an end very soon!
There have been actually quite some materials released during production, the most recent being:
Demo: http://www.nucleosys.com/files/scratches-demo-en.exe
Trailer: http://www.nucleosys.com/files/scratches-trailer-en.wmv
The following are older, short demos (or "interactive teasers" as we liked to call them) featuring gameplay not to be found in the final game. The first teaser is almost a curiosity by now, as is very old and not representative of the game at all:
Second Teaser: http://www.nucleosys.com/files/scratches-t2.exe
First Teaser: http://www.nucleosys.com/files/Scratches_Teaser.exe
So there you go! That should be enough to get you started... hope you have fun with us! We are nice, if a bit strange, group of people :-X