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What you are about to see is powered with the Source Engine. Yes, the same engine that runs Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and the Half-Life 2 series. Here is Dear Esther.
Dear Esther is the product of just six developers and the brain child of Dan Pinchbeck who began this project in 2007 as part of a project to explore experimental game play and storytelling. It has received some incredibly high praise from those in the press, including an 8/10 from Edge Magazine and four nominations in this year's Independent Games Festival awards.
The game will be released on February 14 and more information can be found on the Dear Esther Steam page and through their website.
Dear Esther is a ghost story, told using first-person gaming technologies. Rather than traditional game-play the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of the island, of who you are and why you are here. Fragments of story are randomly uncovered when exploring the various locations of the island, making every each journey a unique experience. Dear Esther features a stunning, specially commissioned soundtrack from Jessica Curry.
Forget the normal rules of play; if nothing seems real here, it’s because it may just be all a delusion. What is the significance of the aerial – What happened on the motorway – is the island real or imagined – who is Esther and why has she chosen to summon you here? The answers are out there, on the lost beach and the tunnels under the island. Or then again, they may just not be, after all…
Forget the normal rules of play; if nothing seems real here, it’s because it may just be all a delusion. What is the significance of the aerial – What happened on the motorway – is the island real or imagined – who is Esther and why has she chosen to summon you here? The answers are out there, on the lost beach and the tunnels under the island. Or then again, they may just not be, after all…
Dear Esther is the product of just six developers and the brain child of Dan Pinchbeck who began this project in 2007 as part of a project to explore experimental game play and storytelling. It has received some incredibly high praise from those in the press, including an 8/10 from Edge Magazine and four nominations in this year's Independent Games Festival awards.
The game will be released on February 14 and more information can be found on the Dear Esther Steam page and through their website.
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