Hey hey!
I hope you’re all doing well. Lots has happened since the last time we posted, so let’s get started!
An old concept of Kasio and Colum at the breakfast table. I still love the idea of Kasio drawing herself in multiple ways, sometimes detailed and beautiful, sometimes a scribbly mess. There's some real emotional truth there!
Announcement Video
A screenshot of the annoucement video with doodles by Liadh drawn on top.
Our biggest news of the year came out at the end of July (as Eve and Bri were on a plane to Washington DC…). As part of the 2022 Annapurna Showcase we released a video about the studio and announcing that we’re working with them again! If you haven’t seen it already, you can check it out here. We’re keeping most of the info about the game itself under wraps for now, the better to surprise you later, but the video is a really fun look at the team itself, and a chance to talk about our overall philosophy and the way we like to work together. Plus the shoot was soooooo much fun! We had a blast making it, including climbing the Dublin Mountains to the HELLFIRE CLUB.
We’re delighted to work with Annapurna again, and you’re gonna flip when we share more details. The game is going to be amazing.
Smithsonian
An image taken by Brianna Chew at the Smithsonian event, showing people playing the game and Eve behind the table.
Back at the end of July two of the team members, Eve and Bri, went over to Washington DC to display If Found as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Arcade Event. It was an absolutely amazing trip, and they had a ton of fun in DC. It was also such a pleasure to get to show the game to lots of new people! And the event was fabulous too. The other games on display were really cool, and there were old arcade cabinets on display as part of a historical exhibit, which was brilliant. If you’re in the DC area and you get the chance, you should absolutely attend next year. We really appreciated everyone who stopped by our table. We got so many wonderful reactions, and it was really really special to see people enjoying the game in person. Thank you so much to the organisers for making it happen, to the other exhibitors for being great company, and to everyone who came by!
Triennale game
A screenshot of CONTACT by Llaura McGee.
And then! A third big thing! Llaura made a game as part of the Milan Triennale collection!
CONTACT was released at the end of September, the final game in a really fabulous group of short interactive experiences. CONTACT will be an absolute treat for all If Found fans, a lovely parallel piece that I think you’ll find very resonant. The whole collection is available on steam AND it’s FREE! How can you cay no to that?
Living Wage Commitment
Dreamfeel has also been working behind the scenes to do the best we can to help make our industry better. Last month we signed an agreement with Game Workers Unite Ireland, promising to commit to a living wage for all our employees, contractors, and anyone we work with. And we can’t wait to work with them further. We want games to be a sustainable industry for everyone working in them, and we hope that being loud and public about our decisions will encourage others to follow our lead. You can read the excellent statement Llaura made at the signing here, it says everything we want to say very clearly.
New Website
With all these new and exciting events happening, we thought we should make sure Dreamfeel had a nice shiny new website to go with them. It’s still a bit of a work in progress, since we need to add some more pages, but what’s there certainly looks good! And given everything that’s happening with social media right now, it’s nice to have a permanent place where you can always find us.
https://dreamfeel.ie/
Future Plans
An old screenshot of a colour test we did for the Break In chapter in If Found.
We’ll probably have another update for you at the end of the year. There are some fun things in the works, and we also want to have a look at issues people have been having with If Found and see if we can get a fix for them. But we’ll talk more about that when we have more to say.
For now, we hope you’re all in good form, and that 2022 has been kind to you!
Talk soon,
The Dream Team