First-person platformer A Story About My Uncle hits Steam this month
Developer Gone North Games has partnered with Goat Simulator creator Coffee Stain Studios to publish a Steam version of its first-person adventure game A Story About My Uncle later this month.
Originally released as a freeware university project in 2012, A Story About My Uncle has since expanded into a fully fledged narrative-driven platformer. Gameplay is driven by mid-air momentum, as players use a grappling hook-like power to climb and swing through an array of fanciful suspended environments.
A Story About My Uncle will hit Steam on May 28.
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A Story About My Uncle is coming to Steam on May 28th, Gameplay trailer is out!
Skövde, Sweden - May 12th. A Story About My Uncle, developed by the newly-formed studio Gone North Games, will be published by Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain Studios on May 28th.
Details:
A Story About My Uncle is a non-violent First-Person platform adventure game built in the Unreal Engine. It is a story about a boy who searches for his lost uncle and ends up in a world he couldn't imagine existed.
The movement through the world in A Story About My Uncle is a crucial part of it's core gameplay - focusing on swinging yourself through caverns with a grappling hook mechanic that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and freedom. Soar through a game world with a unique art style and a mysterious story unraveling slowly before you.
A Story About My Uncle started out as a university project, and was quickly nominated for Game of the Year in the Swedish Game Awards 2012. The short demo has been picked up by the gaming media and has been available for free download since 2012. Now, the game will be remade, finished, polished, and released on Steam.
About Coffee Stain Studios:
Coffee Stain Studios is the indie developer and publisher behind the Sanctum series, and, more recently, Goat Simulator. Bäääää.
About Gone North Games:
Gone North Games is a newly-founded game studio consisting of the group of university students who developed the demo-version of A Story About My Uncle. Having been nominated for Game of the Year at Swedish Game Awards, Gone North Games decided to form their own company and release the full version of the game on Steam.
Gone North Games website: http://gonenorthgames.com/
