We’ll be engaged on a overview for The Spirit and the Mouse, so I bought in contact with Alblune to speak a bit in regards to the recreation. Come test it out!

PS4Blog: Good morning! Thank you for becoming a member of us at the moment. Could you please assist us get began by telling our readers a bit about your self and your work?

Hello everybody! We’re Alblune, a small indie firm based mostly in Montreal! Our workforce consists of two individuals, Lucie Lescuyer and Alexandre Stroukoff. We’ve been working within the gaming business for ten years. We each began as 3D artists and advanced into extra technical roles. Our careers began in France, the place we labored on a broad vary of tasks, from console video games to cell video games (Ubisoft, Gameloft, and extra), working in groups of assorted sizes starting from AAA studios to small indie corporations.

We moved to Canada six years in the past and stored working and studying as a lot as we might in different studios. All this expertise allowed us to assemble a broad set of abilities which are proving very helpful when making your personal indie recreation! Making our personal video games has all the time been a dream of ours. After engaged on numerous small tasks, we began engaged on our first recreation in the beginning of 2020, known as The Spirit and the Mouse!

PS4B: On that word, The Spirit and the Mouse is able to go on Nintendo Switch. What are you able to inform us in regards to the recreation?

The Spirit and the Mouse is an exploration-adventure narrative-driven recreation wherein you play as Lila, a mouse serving to villagers in a small city! After a stunning assembly with a spirit guardian known as Lumion, Lila finds herself in possession of this spirit guardian’s electrical skills, leaving him powerless and stranded on earth! She and Lumion need to work collectively now to revive steadiness within the small city of Sainte-et-Claire.

We made this recreation with the intent of making an accessible recreation for all ages! This means no violence and accessible gameplay. One of our prime priorities was additionally ensuring we crafted a spot the place the participant would really feel secure and relaxed.

PS4B: How lengthy did it take to develop The Spirit and the Mouse? Were there any hurdles or challenges you needed to overcome alongside the best way?

It took us round two and a half years to complete the sport. We weren’t engaged on the sport full-time throughout the entire growth, in order that definitely added a little bit of a problem to the manufacturing! Though I might say essentially the most difficult factor was to design a recreation round exploration and not using a soar button. You have to consider the world from one other perspective! The recreation additionally options various narrative, and regardless that we’re a small workforce, we tried our greatest to have an enticing presentation with cutscenes and animations to immerse gamers the most effective we might. We hope that you’ll benefit from the distinctive world we created!

PS4B: Any probability you is perhaps contemplating releasing a digital (or bodily!) artwork e-book/making of e-book for The Spirit and the Mouse detailing its growth?

Hahaha… that’s a very good query! I’m undecided we’ve got sufficient idea artwork and visible materials worthy of that, however you may be certain we’ll share threads and put up in regards to the growth within the following weeks! We have heaps to share about the best way the sport was created, nevertheless it’s simpler for us to do this over gifs and movies! We nonetheless have the thought of creating a small making-of video to share our creation course of – if there’s an curiosity in it, after all!

PS4B: And now it’s time for us to go. Is there one thing else you’d like so as to add earlier than we finish this one?

Not a lot so as to add, we’re very pleased with the sport, and we hope everybody who performed it had fun!