Keeper: A Be aware from Its Creator on Launch Day

Hello there, my identify is Lee Petty, and I’m a Artistic Lead right here at Double Positive Productions. I’ve been at Double Positive for nearly 20 years! I used to be the Artwork Director for Brütal Legend and Damaged Age, however was additionally the Artistic Lead for Stacking, Headlander, Autonomous, and RAD.

My new recreation, Keeper, was impressed by the occasions of the previous couple of years. Like most, I assumed rather a lot about isolation and reference to others. I’ve all the time been into mountaineering, backpacking, and spending time outdoor with my household. Through the pandemic, it grew to become much more essential to me. I puzzled if the wildlife round me could be all that’s left sooner or later. Wouldn’t it proceed to develop, to evolve? I considered the mycelium, the huge underground networks that join fungi, and the way they’re additionally utilized by timber to share vitamins and talk with one another.

I imagined an remoted island in a far-flung future with out people. What kinds of life would evolve there? Would this life nonetheless be possessed with a necessity to attach with others and to have a objective?

When occupied with what this world may appear like, I used to be impressed by Surrealist painters, like Max Ernst and Salvador Dali, who created vibrant, dream-like worlds which might be each acquainted and in contrast to anything. A few of my favourite motion pictures, like ‘The Darkish Crystal’ and ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’, are about unusual, otherworldly locations and strange types of life, and each current as family-friendly movies however have weirder, darker undercurrents. This comes by means of in Keeper too, giving it a gameplay type that I wish to name “Bizarre, however Chill”.

A narrative informed solely with out phrases, Keeper is the story of a long-forgotten Lighthouse on a post-human island, which awakens after eons of mendacity dormant. The Lighthouse’s historic masonry crumbles and it falls to the bottom, however then it grows legs, stands up, and units off on a journey towards the mountain peak on the heart of the island, joined by a spirited seabird companion, named Twig.

It’s a psychedelic story of companionship and an journey of mystifying metamorphosis, all set in a lovely and surreal otherworldly realm past understanding.

It’s a recreation which may be very a lot concerning the sudden, and we have now gone to nice lengths to protect the mysteries and surprises the sport holds. I’m actually excited for you all to find them for yourselves as you play – and I’d wish to ask you to please take into account the way you discuss these shocking components, ideally preserving a few of the thriller for others wherever doable. Thanks for taking part in!

Lee & The Workforce at Double Positive Productions

Keeper

Xbox Sport Studios

☆☆☆☆☆
156

★★★★★

$29.99

PC Sport Move

Xbox Sport Move

From Lee Petty and Double Positive Productions, Keeper is a lovely and surreal otherworldly journey, and a narrative informed with out phrases.

On an island in a long-lost sea, a forgotten lighthouse stands dormant within the shadow of a distant mountain peak. As withering tendrils unfold and coalesce, it awakens. Taken with a mysterious sense of objective and joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening story of unlikely companionship, an odyssey of mystifying metamorphosis, and an sudden journey in the direction of the middle of the island, into realms past understanding.