Total Reload – new first-person puzzle game in Portal style
Total Reload may be of interest to Portal fans because this series was our main source of inspiration. In our project you will find a combination of proven game mechanics and original ideas, the central one of which is the system of interaction with wires. If in Portal you need to “think with portals,” then in Total Reload you need to “think with wires.” To move forward, the protagonist needs to connect different energy sources to different receivers, connecting them with wires according to the player’s decision. Energy receivers are: closed doors, moving platforms, sensor grids, energy filters. You can see these devices in the gameplay trailer.
To tell the game story, we developed a system for interacting with drawings on the walls. These images contain encrypted text comments from the protagonist about his past and current situation. Some comments will even contain references to songs by the rock band Muse and a book by Robert Heinlein. To extract this information, it’s enough to point the decoder cursor at the pictures from a certain distance. The special video on our YouTube channel demonstrates the output of texts when the decoder cursor interacts with these images.
We also recently published a story trailer for Total Reload. But the game has a deep meaning hidden in the sci-fi story. In fact, this project is about how people or other intelligent beings take on a task of the largest possible scale for them and never give up until they complete it. The creation of Total Reload became a very large-scale task for us, and in a figurative sense, we can say that our game tells about us, its developers, alone looking for ways to finish a difficult task. And at the end of development, a real Total Reload will also happen for us))
We had to delay the release date of Total Reload on Steam and Epic Games Store to April 9, 2024 in order to have time to conduct open testing of the project. And we want to inform you that the duration of the game will be almost 10 hours, and the price will be $19.99 (USD).
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