When Two Best Friends Make Games (And Only One Sells)
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Australian Game Developers Matt Trobbiani and Chris Johnson are best friends. They do everything together. They grew up in Adelaide together. They did a Computer Science degree together. They made video games together, released video games together. But when Matt released Hacknet and Chris Johnson released Expand, everything changed. One game made its creator rich, the other sent its creator broke. Both have to live with the consequences.
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Nothing happens before its time, as they say. And if there was ever a need for a video game adaptation of George Orwell s Animal Farm, now is surely the moment.
Orwell s celebrated fiction is an allegory on the rise of dictators, and its examination of inequality, power and manipulation is frighteningly relevant today. This is something that creative director Imre Jele, and his indie development collective at The Dairymen and Nerial, are well aware of, and they re determined to use the medium of video games to bring this classic to even more people. It s painfully relevant we felt that we have a responsibility to bring it in front of people, says Jele, when we asked why he chose to take on the daunting challenging of adapting the 75 year-old book into a narrative adventure game for desktop and mobile platforms. It is more than just entertainment. It is important [for it] to be in front of people, so people can ask questions about their governance.
Orwell s Animal Farm is a gorgeous adventure game that explores power and corruption, out now
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Animal Farm is a satirical book from George Orwell that draws many parallels to society and its governments by focusing on the threat of a political dystopia on an animal farm, and the developer behind the well-received Reigns card game series is working in partnership with The Dairymen in order to bring a new game based on the book to mobile and PC. This game is appropriately called Orwell s Animal Farm, and it s being developed with the full endorsement of the Orwell estate in preparation for an official launch this fall.
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