Ayna: Shattered Truth

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"This proposal is for the development of a narrative video game called ""Ayna: Shattered Truth"" targeting worldwide PC and console gamers playing side scroller games. It will benefit at least the 11 existing team members for this project. The team is very diverse and consists of 5 nationalities from the European Union. More than half of the team are women. Many members are experienced people from the games industry that have previously worked on titles such as “Ori and the Will of the Wisps” and “Sea of Solitude”. But designmatic GmbH also nurtures talents that are completely new to the games industry. With this grant a playable prototype should be developed that showcases all envisioned aspects of the game in a small portion of the game (i.e., vertical slice of the game). This vertical slice will then be used to pitch to existing partners, namely Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. and Microsoft Inc. for distribution deals with respect to console releases. Moreover, the game will be pitched to publishers worldwide for production funding. The release platforms are PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The key outputs for this proposal are: - Finalized art style for the game - Create a robust and scalable art pipeline to create required 3D assets for the game - Finalized plot for the entire game - Finalized style for envisioned games areas - Creating concept for levels (environment) and characters - Implementation of all required technical systems within the game (e.g., dialog with characters, interaction with game objects, streaming of the game world) - Story script for the first areas of the game - Dialog script for main story and side stories - Production plan to begin production phase after finishing development phase - Distribution and marketing plans to ensure best commercial exploitation of the developed video game"