Tale Of Tales Brings Graveyard To iPhone
March 8, 2010 10:00 AM | Eric Caoili
Belgian indie Tale of Tales has ported The Graveyard, its short PC "game" originally released in 2008 and nominated for IGF 2009's Innovation award, to iPhone. As with the Windows/Mac versions, the mobile port has two editions, a Lite version available for free and the $1.99 full version, in which its possible for the protagonist to die.
In The Graveyard, players controls an elderly woman during as she hobbles around a cemetery toward a bench for her to rest. Once sitting, she sits and listens to a song, then leaves. In the full version of the game, there's a chance she dies while sitting on the bench.
"The Graveyard offers a player the opportunity to imagine themselves in a certain situation," explains creators Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. "It's not a game in the sense that there is a way to win or lose or a puzzle to solve, or even a story to uncover. But the interaction does immerse you in a virtual world filled with narrative, an equally powerful feature of the medium of video games.
The developers note that because the iPhone hardware is less powerful than a PC, they made several changes to the game's graphics, removing post-processing, real-time overlays, animated trees, and birds. Samyn adds, "Still, if you ask us, The Graveyard is one of the best looking and sounding games on the iPhone."
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