Hello Compeers,
Glasshouse's Concept Demo is officially available on Steam and today we want to celebrate this moment with you.
FLAT28, A COLLECTIVE WITHOUT HOPE
Italy, Bulgaria, England, USA, Canada, Austria, Colombia.
The FLAT28 Collective was born with impossible assumptions: Connecting human beings from distant continents to develop one or more video games, in an increasingly dark and detached world.
When the embryo of GLASSHOUSE first came into existence, never, ever did we expect to find ourselves here, 2 years later, in front of the "Release Build" button.
By May 2022, GLASSHOUSE was just a pile of gray blocks, dozens of word pages, and some timid artwork, amid literary, video game, and movie inspirations.
Today, we officially close the chapter of "Pre-Production" and embark on the stormy sea of GLASSHOUSE's actual development.
THE MEANING OF "CONCEPT DEMO"
This Concept Demo does not represent the final product and probably does not even do it full justice. This is the Videoludic Manifesto of a dozen artists (professional and non-professional), developed in our spare time, without funding, over nearly 700 days.
We were naive, we fought and finally loved.
That's part of the game of independent development, you destroy to create, you change to improve.
This Concept Demo does not represent the final product simply because, over time, we have changed. We write better than yesterday, we model better than yesterday, we plan better than the day before yesterday.
Most likely, the contents of this experience will be entirely cut, torn, and stitched back together in different guises once the final form of GLASSHOUSE is on display sooner or later. Take this Demo as a kind of "Chapter that will be lost in time."
THE CONTENTS OF GLASSHOUSE: CONCEPT DEMO
🕹️ +2 hours of Gameplay
🎲 3 Possible Endings
🩸 Political Compass: Choose your ideology, make hard choices through Political Skillchecks
🛠️ Crafting: Build Tools, expand your Inventory, and solve tricky puzzles with cunning
🗺️ 2 new locations: Channel 73 and Wealdmaer's Room
💬 New User Interface
💬 2 exclusive Achievements to unlock
👨🏼⚖️ Checkpoints Saving System
🔍 Questlog: Your personal journal to keep track of your progress
🎬 Introduction movie dubbed in English
🎷+50 minutes of Original Soundtrack
WANT TO JOIN FLAT28?
GLASSHOUSE: Concept Demo has been tuned to detail and greatly improved thanks to the incredible support of our Community which, over the past month, has provided us with tons of feedback based on the build previously released on Itch.io.
You will find all the fellow FLAT28 members who joined us in the credits.
If you would like to be part of the next part of our development odyssey, our Discord is always open to everyone: https://discord.gg/Dprzd9ynxT
Thank you for your valuable time, see you soon!
Giacomo Montagnoli, Creative Director
FLAT28 Collective