In our earlier Wire submit we shared some insights on the origin of the story and the participant character of our recreation CLeM. Now we’d wish to share some concepts that influenced the design of probably the most necessary characters within the recreation: the home.
Right here at Mango Protocol we pleasure ourselves within the skill to take a look at the true world and extract marvel, thriller and enjoyable from our typically worn and mundane environment. Thus, we’ve been turning our gaze to the issues round us and injecting tons of those ideas into our video games because the inception of the studio.
When growing CLeM, all of us agreed that we needed to discover the right surroundings for our recreation with escape room vibes to happen in. Fortunately, we had entry to Torre Elias, which, in addition to being a hauntingly lovely nineteenth century conventional Catalan home, is Mariona’s ancestral residence! You wouldn’t reject having complete entry to a protected architectural heritage constructing, proper? Nicely, neither did we.
Right here’s the principle avenue facade, the one that you may see when strolling round CLeM’s home backyard.
The home has been inhabited because it was constructed. Each era has managed to depart their mark by adapting or rebuilding elements of the home to stick with it to fashionable residing requirements. That basically helped us to deliver that “empty however probably not deserted” look to CLeM’s home. We wished you to discover the totally different rooms and halls and have that feeling of a spot that, not so way back, was lively and offered a pleasant residence for a household.
Torre Elias kitchen is a pleasant instance of furnishings that appears previous for at present’s requirements however is certainly fashionable in distinction to how an 1800s kitchen might need been.
In that earlier image you’ll be able to see how Mariona tailored that blend of previous and older furnishings to the sport.
After all, while you inherit an historical architectural jewel of a house, you could introduce some modifications to make it habitable, however there’s some issues that cross the check of time with flying colours and also you need to maintain at residence in any respect prices. A pair examples of this are, on one facet, the marvelous hydraulic tiles and wall work resembling wallpaper, each lovely staples of Catalan Modernism which Mariona managed to translate completely into the sport’s model.
And, on the opposite facet, there’s the small objects, people who deliver the private style of every inhabitant to the home. Take a look at these cast iron wall lamps that ended up lighting an in-game hall together with these sample wall decorations and much more hydraulic tiling. Seems these low gentle corridors and tones have been an ideal match for the temper we wished for the least modernized rooms in CLeM’s home.
Talking of small objects, Mariona picked some ornamental and creative objects to fill the home with aptitude and persona. A few of them I managed to include into puzzles, letting you join at some degree with the characters that lived in that home and coexisted with these explicit objects. This Bristol glass jar will certainly catch your eye within the first phases of CLeM. It’s one in all these objects that helps bringing a cohesive surroundings and on the identical time find yourself being related to the event of the gameplay.
Lastly, I’d wish to stress the significance of the artistic endeavors that you just’ll have the ability to discover round the home. Mariona made the trouble of filling CLeM’s home partitions with some iconic feminine artists’ works. These photos additionally helped to encourage a few of the puzzles.
Have a tour round the home and luxuriate in homages of work like Vanessa Bell’s “The Pond at Charleston”, Tamara de Lempicka’s “Plante grasse et fiole” or “Pianist” by cubist artist Maria Blanchard, which impressed a part of a musical puzzle within the recreation.
I hope you loved this walkthrough alongside the real-world influences that helped construct our beloved home. You possibly can discover it proper now, as CLeM, our acclaimed puzzle journey with escape room vibes and a darkish story to unveil, is out now on Xbox Sequence X|S and Xbox One.
CLeM
Mango Protocol
$15.99
$14.39
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle journey recreation with a darkish twist. Get up in a world the place puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a singular narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It offers you goal. To information you, you discover a pocket book with mysterious entries and a home to discover.
EXPERIENCE A DARK ADVENTURE FULL OF MYSTERY
You awaken in a chilly, dimly lit room, your senses slowly adjusting to the environment that, oddly, really feel acquainted. An odd sensation lingers in you, reminding you that one thing isn’t fairly proper. As you discover your bearings, your consideration is drawn to a peculiar merchandise on the bottom. A pocket book labeled “CLeM” lies earlier than you. As you delve into its pages, coated with intricate sketches of bugs accompanied by imprecise symbols, you discover a word containing a cryptic message: “Convey me BEAUTY.” Misplaced in deciphering the contents, a voice interrupts your focus.
SOLVE PUZZLES AND FIND YOUR WAY
Puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a singular narrative expertise we name “puzzlevania” with a shadowy story to unravel and numerous challenges to beat.
CRAFT ENCHANTED TOYS AND UNCOVER SECRETS
Craft magic toys to unveil hidden secrets and techniques, entry unreachable spots, and reclaim objects from the previous as you uncover new revelations in acquainted areas.
DISCOVER A CUTE AND DARK WORLD
Examine a seemingly desolate home accompanied solely by an obscure voice and a pocket book filled with annotations and drawings on alchemy, bugs, and different creepy crawlies.
EMBRACE YOUR DESTINY
Select your destiny on this darkish story of manipulation, pleasure, forgiveness, and redemption.
In our earlier Wire submit we shared some insights on the origin of the story and the participant character of our recreation CLeM. Now we’d wish to share some concepts that influenced the design of probably the most necessary characters within the recreation: the home.
Right here at Mango Protocol we pleasure ourselves within the skill to take a look at the true world and extract marvel, thriller and enjoyable from our typically worn and mundane environment. Thus, we’ve been turning our gaze to the issues round us and injecting tons of those ideas into our video games because the inception of the studio.
When growing CLeM, all of us agreed that we needed to discover the right surroundings for our recreation with escape room vibes to happen in. Fortunately, we had entry to Torre Elias, which, in addition to being a hauntingly lovely nineteenth century conventional Catalan home, is Mariona’s ancestral residence! You wouldn’t reject having complete entry to a protected architectural heritage constructing, proper? Nicely, neither did we.
Right here’s the principle avenue facade, the one that you may see when strolling round CLeM’s home backyard.
The home has been inhabited because it was constructed. Each era has managed to depart their mark by adapting or rebuilding elements of the home to stick with it to fashionable residing requirements. That basically helped us to deliver that “empty however probably not deserted” look to CLeM’s home. We wished you to discover the totally different rooms and halls and have that feeling of a spot that, not so way back, was lively and offered a pleasant residence for a household.
Torre Elias kitchen is a pleasant instance of furnishings that appears previous for at present’s requirements however is certainly fashionable in distinction to how an 1800s kitchen might need been.
In that earlier image you’ll be able to see how Mariona tailored that blend of previous and older furnishings to the sport.
After all, while you inherit an historical architectural jewel of a house, you could introduce some modifications to make it habitable, however there’s some issues that cross the check of time with flying colours and also you need to maintain at residence in any respect prices. A pair examples of this are, on one facet, the marvelous hydraulic tiles and wall work resembling wallpaper, each lovely staples of Catalan Modernism which Mariona managed to translate completely into the sport’s model.
And, on the opposite facet, there’s the small objects, people who deliver the private style of every inhabitant to the home. Take a look at these cast iron wall lamps that ended up lighting an in-game hall together with these sample wall decorations and much more hydraulic tiling. Seems these low gentle corridors and tones have been an ideal match for the temper we wished for the least modernized rooms in CLeM’s home.
Talking of small objects, Mariona picked some ornamental and creative objects to fill the home with aptitude and persona. A few of them I managed to include into puzzles, letting you join at some degree with the characters that lived in that home and coexisted with these explicit objects. This Bristol glass jar will certainly catch your eye within the first phases of CLeM. It’s one in all these objects that helps bringing a cohesive surroundings and on the identical time find yourself being related to the event of the gameplay.
Lastly, I’d wish to stress the significance of the artistic endeavors that you just’ll have the ability to discover round the home. Mariona made the trouble of filling CLeM’s home partitions with some iconic feminine artists’ works. These photos additionally helped to encourage a few of the puzzles.
Have a tour round the home and luxuriate in homages of work like Vanessa Bell’s “The Pond at Charleston”, Tamara de Lempicka’s “Plante grasse et fiole” or “Pianist” by cubist artist Maria Blanchard, which impressed a part of a musical puzzle within the recreation.
I hope you loved this walkthrough alongside the real-world influences that helped construct our beloved home. You possibly can discover it proper now, as CLeM, our acclaimed puzzle journey with escape room vibes and a darkish story to unveil, is out now on Xbox Sequence X|S and Xbox One.
CLeM
Mango Protocol
$15.99
$14.39
CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle journey recreation with a darkish twist. Get up in a world the place puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a singular narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It offers you goal. To information you, you discover a pocket book with mysterious entries and a home to discover.
EXPERIENCE A DARK ADVENTURE FULL OF MYSTERY
You awaken in a chilly, dimly lit room, your senses slowly adjusting to the environment that, oddly, really feel acquainted. An odd sensation lingers in you, reminding you that one thing isn’t fairly proper. As you discover your bearings, your consideration is drawn to a peculiar merchandise on the bottom. A pocket book labeled “CLeM” lies earlier than you. As you delve into its pages, coated with intricate sketches of bugs accompanied by imprecise symbols, you discover a word containing a cryptic message: “Convey me BEAUTY.” Misplaced in deciphering the contents, a voice interrupts your focus.
SOLVE PUZZLES AND FIND YOUR WAY
Puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a singular narrative expertise we name “puzzlevania” with a shadowy story to unravel and numerous challenges to beat.
CRAFT ENCHANTED TOYS AND UNCOVER SECRETS
Craft magic toys to unveil hidden secrets and techniques, entry unreachable spots, and reclaim objects from the previous as you uncover new revelations in acquainted areas.
DISCOVER A CUTE AND DARK WORLD
Examine a seemingly desolate home accompanied solely by an obscure voice and a pocket book filled with annotations and drawings on alchemy, bugs, and different creepy crawlies.
EMBRACE YOUR DESTINY
Select your destiny on this darkish story of manipulation, pleasure, forgiveness, and redemption.
