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Title: Life in the Box
Genre: Point'n'Click adventure
Authors: Ars Longa Games
Estimated release date: 2017

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Team members:

Dmitry Petyakin - story, music, gamedesign
Sergey Kuvshinov - animation
Pavel Sevbo - programming
Serge Verkhoturov - translation
Dmitry Salkov - backround artist

NEW SCENE

Twitter: Life in the Box

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What will be if you lose someone close? What will be if you have a chance to bring him back? But the price might be the fate of entire Universe - maybe even not only one.
Physicist Alex has lost his beloved daughter many years ago. After that, changing the past became the only purpose of his life. That's why he devoted himself to creating a time machine to return back and prevent the deathly accident. But nobody can travel in time with impunity.

Many years passed since the daughter's death, when Alex managed to build the time machine. After he used it, a portal appeared. The Time Masters came out and told Alex that nobody can turn the time back and change the past, and afterwards they left. In a few hours, the portal appeared again, and one of the Time Masters came out. He offered a deal to the physicist - he would return his daughter from the past if Alex helped him to create multiple portals to the Earth. The purpose of those portals was not explained detailed - some harmless needs of the Time Master. Losing his head, Alex agreed to help the Time Master and created the first portal from a simple box. That's where the problems began...

Life in the Box is a point 'n click adventure where you have to travel different worlds, and find a way to fix a load of universe scale issues, that you caused by your attempt to change the time.

You'll meet a lot of strange creatures, some of them will help you, some of them will make obstacles.

The levels structure will be kinda similar to FEZ, we have one initial location from where we can travel between other worlds.

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Game music

If you have any questions - feel free to ask!

[Xonatron]

First thing, I am a fan of your pixel art.

[UnfoldGames]

First thing, I am a fan of your pixel art.

+1 to that. Lovely graphics.

[Todo Asano]

First thing, I am a fan of your pixel art.

Thank you. 

[thecolonygame]

Great job. It's looking nice.

[SunWuKong]

Great art. Looking forward to more news and the demo!

-Tim

[El-Metallico]

Thanks a lot, guys! 

[Mittens]

cool graphics/colours

[Cranktrain]

So good! What I like about the pixel art is the highlighting on the edges, like the white halo around the player portrait in the dialogue sequences, or the yellow edges of lighting around the fireplace.

[08--n7.r6-79.84]

I definitely like this! 

[El-Metallico]

Thanks for kind words, guys, It is really inspiring!
We are planning to post updates every 4-5 days, and, perhaps, we will release demo a bit earlier - first days of November or so.

DizzyDoo
Thanks! Artist will be glad to hear it

[AD1337]

Posting here to see more of the beautiful art.

[El-Metallico]

AD1337
Thanks!
Btw, here is our new logo, gears will be animated later

[El-Metallico]

Time for bump! Sketch of smiling Twinkle.



And a short preview of new theme. We already know which world it is, but we don't want to spoil it 

https://el-metallico.bandcamp.com/track/world-demo

Everything is going pretty well, so hopefully the demo will be available soon.

[Todo Asano]

Hi, bump. Twinkle emotions.

[El-Metallico]

Hey, guys! Here are few animations of Alex and his dog, btw, dog needs a name, any suggestions? We just call him DOG right now... Also, we had idea to make DOGE instead of this little boy, but later we decided to use this one.



     

[El-Metallico]

Hey, guys. Small update, unfortunately, our artist caught a cold, so we're slowed down a bit.
Anyway, here are few animations of Alex's dog, sketch of an eye - it's an element of UI, it will be used in room with giant face on the wall, and new track in progress.



 



Memories World (demo)

[Pix n chips]

Love the art. The game looks awesome. That said, are you gonna use the time premise to make some puzzles? because I see in the concept a lot of potential, playing with the time travel I mean. And about the dogs name what about a famous physicist name like Isac, albert, ptolomeo, galileo or copernicus.

[El-Metallico]

brunoxzx
Wow, it's a very good idea about the name, thanks a lot!
Yeah, sure, there will be time puzzles, definitely, we working on them at the moment. Thanks for feedback!

[El-Metallico]

Hey, guys. Our artist is totally fine now, so the UI emotions are almost finished. Hopefully, we will release short demo soon.