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Reflections of Life 5: Hearts Taken

Chaos in the heart of Siberia
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Chaos in the heart of Siberia

Spectacular Siberian locations with stunning nature and carefully designed village with unusual gameplay.

Mystical realism and diversity
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Mystical realism and diversity

Despite the main game's plot is built around mystical happening, we paid a lot of attention to the "real" side of the setting as well, including multiple researches of Siberian life.

Ancient mystery
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Ancient mystery

PC's husband used to be anthropologist, who went to a distant Siberian village with his team to research some lore. the story begins, when he doesn't return, and the letters from him never come.

Disaster all around
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Disaster all around

PC arrives to the village, and some fearful creatures immediately attack her.

Don't trouble trouble
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Don't trouble trouble

Ancient evil was awoken when PC's husband disturbed its grave. Evil entity's name is Likho, which means literary "Disaster" in Ancient Russian.

Creative puzzles
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Creative puzzles

Despite the game itself is a 2D point-and-click adventure, we used both 2D and 3D to create unusual puzzles which help to tell the story.

Hidden object scenes
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Hidden object scenes

Siberian culture is extremely rich for details, and we designed our Hidden Object scenes in the way to let the player study its beauty in details. Hundreds of players' reviews told us it was a good design decision!

Setting-based puzzles
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Setting-based puzzles

Many puzzles which require attention and logic are based on the lore and setting specifics.

Rich crafts
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Rich crafts

Siberian and other ancient Slavic nations are famous for their crafts. During player's investigation we allowed him to try some of these in order to solve the riddles and progress through the story.

Fighting the evil
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Fighting the evil

During his adventure player finds possibility to fight evil entities and dispel the normal reality. To make this, he plays several "dispelling" mini-games during walkthrough.

Dispelling the realm
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Dispelling the realm

During his adventure player finds possibility to fight evil entities and dispel the normal reality. To make this, he plays several "dispelling" mini-games during walkthrough.

Crafting mini-games
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Crafting mini-games

Siberian and other ancient Slavic nations are famous for their crafts. During player's investigation we allowed him to try some of these in order to solve the riddles and progress through the story.

Memorable characters
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Memorable characters

Visuals and personality of the characters, both allies and enemies, are memorable and significant.

Deserve their trust to get help
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Deserve their trust to get help

Local people are scared with evil that terrorizes their town and kidnaps their relatives. They will not trust and help some foreign person that easy. save them ,help them to fight Likho, and after many quests they will start to trust you too.

//Reflections of Life 5: Hearts Taken

Project Description

After his postcards stopped coming, you discovered that your husband disappeared during his expedition to Siberia. He was searching for a mythical cave that hides a legendary force. You must follow in his footsteps and catch up to him, before he meets a tragic fate in the Russian wilderness! Travel through scenic locations and uncover ancient legends in this mysterious hidden-object puzzle adventure game!
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Reflections of Life 5: Hearts Taken

Category : Point-and-click Writing

Genre
Hidden object point-and-click adventure game

​​Roles: 

Lead Game Designer  Narrative Consultant

Responsibilities:

Lead Game DesignerNarrative Consultant

♦ Negotiated with publishers from USA via e-mail, skype

♦ Consulted Game Designers of the project on mechanics, balance, narrative and mechanics decisions.

♦ Reviewed the documentation on all stages and gave feedbacks and tasks to the Game Designer.

♦ Helped to solve issues, brainstorm the tough moments and build wise and balanced gameplay through all the game

♦ Made periodical gameplay test sessions for the first demo

♦ Organized feedback sessions and team brainstorming sessions weekly

♦ Created the story concept, made presentation and pitched it to the stakeholders and publishers.

♦ Reviewed the story concept, gave feedbacks and advice whenever the story got some gaps or didn’t follow the brand philosophy.

♦  Took part in character design including motivation development and model casting for the further photoshoot

♦  Read and edited all in-game texts written by the Game Designer in English

♦ Helped Game Designer to improve the map of player’s tasks and objectives throughout the game to make game flow more consistent and intense.

Work examples

Please contact me if you wish to see more examples of my work, including GDDs and Game Writing.

This game can be purchased on:

Platform
iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac & PC
  • Period : 06.2016 - 05.2017
  • Company : GrandMa studio
  • Publisher : BigFish Games
  • Team Size : ~45
  • Duration : 8 hours
Bogdan

"Name's Bogdan. You're lucky I found you. The fog is evil and took my wife weeks ago. I was looking for her when I stumbled into you. We must find a way out of the cave".

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