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1568450cookie-checkPrisma Light, Hand-Animated Action-RPG Brings Charming Art-Style To Crowdfund Site Catarse
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2019/12

Prisma Light, Hand-Animated Action-RPG Brings Charming Art-Style To Crowdfund Site Catarse

Brazilian developers GraphPix have taken their hand-animated, sprite-based action-RPG, Prisma Light, to the crowdfunding platform Catarse, opting to avoid the shenanigans that have been bogging down Kickstarter as of late.

The game has a very similar pixelated motif that mirrors Heart Machine’s Hyper Light Drifter. It was originally announced back in the summer with a debut trailer where the developers gave gamers a brief look at some of the art, the gameplay, and the general direction they were going in with the presentation.

With the crowdfunding page now live over on the Catarse page, they’ve put a lot more time into explaining what the game is about and what they’re hoping to achieve by racking up R$30,000 to finish development on the title. You can check out the trailer below.

The game is about Davus, a 12-year-old boy who opens a mysterious package that opens a portal to another world. When an evil presence makes its way into Davus’ hometown, it’s up to him, his friends, and his trusty dog, Einstein, to battle the evil forces, upgrade Davus’ wooden sword, and battle through time and space to save the world from an extra-dimensional force.

The plot definitely sounds a lot like Secret of Evermore, where you played as a young boy and his dog as they traveled through time and space to battle evil and trek back home, but that should come as no surprise given that the game is being made as a love-letter to the 16-bit era of role-playing games on the SNES.

The pixelated architecture seems to draw from a mixture of Tokyo-punk meets rural suburbia, which is a great way to stand out during this era of a bunch of me-too sprite clones by hipsters hailing from the sunny shores of the Bay Area.

In any case, if you like what GraphPix is working on and want to help fund their project you can do so by visiting the Catarse page, which has become a popular option for Brazilian creators, as evident with the recently funded lewd card game, The XX War.

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