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German publisher Daedalic Entertainment (Ankh, FIBA Basketball Manager) has announced that they’ll be bringing a new adventure title to DS, Wii, and PC platforms. This will be their first internally developed title, so it will be interesting to see what kind of bar they set. A New Beginning is to be an adventure game with an ecological message: something we should all be able to relate to. Well, except for the flat-earth-creationist-global-warming-is-a-myth types. I think I’m going tangental here.

The most impressive concept here might be visual:

In A New Beginning, players take control of two protagonists and explore the detailed, hand-painted backgrounds. The more than 30 characters are rendered in a realistic 2D style and are painstakingly animated by hand in feature film quality.

Now, that sounds like something I can sink my eyeballs into. Press release follows.

A New Beginning: New adventure game announced

German publisher Daedalic Entertainment is out to save the world

Hamburg, Germany: August 21, 2007. Telling emotionally captivating stories is the declared aim of Daedalic Entertainment. At this year’s Games Convention, the publisher unveiled the first internally developed project.

A New Beginning is a cinematic, interactive eco-thriller. In the classic adventure game an impending global climate cataclysm threatens the world, in a story ripped from today’s headlines, dealing with the defining issue of our time. At locations all around the globe, players will have to try and stem the tide – with the whole world hanging in the balance.

In A New Beginning, players take control of two protagonists and explore the detailed, hand-painted backgrounds. The more than 30 characters are rendered in a realistic 2D style and are painstakingly animated by hand in feature film quality. Many challenging puzzles and adventurous situations have to be overcome to prevent the impending climate chaos. The ambitious adventure game project is in development for PC, Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii.

Scientist Bent Svensson has had to give up on his life’s work of trying to engineer an eco-friendly alternative energy source. But his existence as a reluctant retiree is interrupted by a most peculiar visitor: The young Fay claims to have been sent from the future to prevent an impending environmental catastrophe. The only remaining hope is Bent’s research which is about to fall into the hands of an unscrupulous energy magnate. Bent decides to trust the young woman – but is she really telling the truth?

Daedalic Entertainment will present A New Beginning exclusively at this year’s Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany (August, 22-25) to international press and trade visitors.

Overview

Title: A New Beginning
Format: PC / Nintendo DS / Nintendo Wii
Developer: Daedalic Entertainment
Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
Release Date: Q4/2008

About Daedalic Entertainment

Founded in 2007, Daedalic Entertainment is a publisher and developer of computer and video games, based in Hamburg, Germany. The company’s main focus is the production of entertainment products with strong narratives. As a publisher, Daedalic offers comprehensive marketing know-how in the international publishing field, thanks to a talented internal team and an expansive network of experienced service providers.