Developer: btf
Publisher: Headup, WhisperGames
Release: Out now
On: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
From: Steam, GOG
For: 25, $30, 30
I ve mentioned before that I love miniatures. The best part of travelling on planes is buying the teeny tiny versions of shampoo bottles that are allowed through security. It s like my shampoo at home, but smaller! So I was immediately drawn to the idea of handmade adventure games like Tr berbrook (or the still to be released Harold Halibut).
You see Tr berbrook, a point n click adventure game set in 1960s Germany, uses physical sets, in miniature, which are then magically put in your computer (using photogrammetry, but as we know any sufficiently advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic, so: they are magically put in your computer). They re then populated with digital characters made to look like handmade miniatures, and away you go, solving a weird mystery.