👋 Hello, fellow Forgers!
In the recent-ish playtest, Amelia reached Kraków, where her adventure is about to truly begin. The city itself is near and dear to our hearts, as the team is based here. However, with its rich artistic background, it also makes a perfect setting for a story about a young, aspiring artist.
One of the districts she’ll visit is centered around the intersection of Basztowa and Długa streets, with a characteristic building known as The Globe House at its heart. Since one of our goals in Forgery Craft is to recreate the real-life crafting experience with our mechanics, the only fair choice is to apply a similar approach to creating the game world. We wanted to build nice to look at, easy to navigate, and (mostly) historically accurate locations. To achieve that, we blend the looks of the crossing today with its version found in archive pictures.
The building itself sparked our interest, as in the first half of the 20th century, a prospering art supplies shop occupied one of its ground-floor premises. Just 250 m away from the Academy of Fine Arts, it was famous among its students and professors. And they were coming there not only for its inventory but also because of the intelligent and beautiful owner’s daughter, Róża, who was running it. She often sat for portraits and sometimes even took them as payment for paint and fresh canvas.
There are many more little stories and details from Krakow’s past that we’d gladly include in our game. We hope that discovering them while playing Forgery Craft will be as enjoyable for you as it was for us during our research to create a believable and beautiful world for Amelia to explore!
If you feel Forgery Craft is right up your alley and would like to stay tuned about the game's development, make sure to add it to your Steam Wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1540720/Forgery_Craft/
Interested in additional sneak peeks and a bit of behind-the-scenes info? Our Discord server is the place to be! We recently shared some new concept art showcasing a couple of background characters:
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If you missed out on our previous announcement, you can dive straight into it down below:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1540720/view/544480940963922403
⏳ Till next time!
- Forgery Craft Team