The quest
I’m developing a cinematic game where you play as a girl’s personified curiosity, fighting for your own existence before she sacrifices you for absolute knowledge.
In a realm where theaters lure travelers inside, trapping them in the play of yet another lifetime, Aril is desperate to transcend the drama and roam “backstage” just like her teasing mentor, Mr. Blackbird.
But the price of absolute clarity is a devastating irony: to become all-knowing, she must sacrifice her own wonder. To become the sun, she must bid farewell to the thrill of the shadows. She must silence her curiosity—personified as her companion, Root—by tearing open Root’s heart and offering its colorful ink to a mystical Tree of Life and Death.
As Aril embarks on her quest to find such a yew tree, your mission is to help Root gather arguments for her continued existence, convincing Aril that the messy, colorful unknown is worth more than the cold clarity of the truth.
Or… is it?
CH01. The friends
Root exists to experience the fullness of existence—whether as a soaring bat, a humping butterfly, or a neuron firing in a petri dish.
Aril has grown weary of the endless roles they play across countless theatres, each offering new plots and fleeting moments to collect, yet no answers to the greater questions of the universe. She longs to become a Blackbird: wise, all-knowing, and free from the never ending dramas.
Storyteller
1980
I’m four years old.
The concept of reality is puzzling to me.
I carry with me experiences of something ultra real, yet something that is hard to fit into my everyday life.
I want to leave my stupid, cancer-might-relapse meat-sack of a body-costume behind and return to Eternalmoor.
I want to stay and see my soon-to-be little sister grow up.
I share my musings with Blackbird, my ever-present childhood friend. I identify as Aril — a girl on a scientific quest, haunted by tangled thoughts. I identify as Root — an untamed, loving heart.
They both live inside me, debating. Arguing.
This movie is born from those musings.
/The storyteller
Devlogs and WIP
Go behind the scenes of our preproduction. Follow the sculpting of assets, budgeting decisions, project management tricks, creative struggles, and the occasional epiphany. Raw, real, and hopefully useful — especially if you’re building something weird and ambitious in #blender too.