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The Franz Kafka Videogame bugs desktops, mobile in 2014
Franz Kafka's mind is a ripe setting for a video game, full of anxiety, bureaucracy, daddy issues and a little bit of magic. Indie developer Denis Galanin, known as "mif2000," has transformed The Castle, The Metamorphosis, Amerika and a few other works from Kafka into The Franz Kafka Videogame, due out for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android in 2014. Mif2000 was previously responsible for translating William Shakespeare's Hamlet into a game with a ridiculous name but respectable accolades. The Franz Kafka Videogame follows the main character, K, after he gets a new job that requires traveling to a distant land. And then things get weird, just as Kafka intended.
The Joystiq Indie Pitch: Hamlet, or the last game without MMORPG features, shaders and product placement
Being a giant, beloved video game site has its downsides. For example, we sometimes neglect to give independent developers our coverage love (or loverage, if you will) as we get caught up in AAA, AAAA or the rare quintuple-A titles. To remedy that, we're giving indies the chance to create their own loverage and sell you, the fans, on their studios and products. This week we talk with mif2000 (Deins Galanin) about how he turned the unlikeliest of IPs into a point-and-click PC adventure called Hamlet. Joystiq: How did you or your company get started? Deins Galanin: Before I became an independent developer, I spent five years working in a Russian game development company, where I helped develop a number of commercial games. (Some of them are very popular in Russia, but almost unknown in the west.) At a certain point, each developer faces a tough moral choice: either do what you're told to do, or do what you want to do. I chose the latter and became an independent developer.
Hooray for progress: Hamlet game coming next month
You can stop the letter writing and e-petitions, your prayers have been answered: Indie dev mif2000 has turned Shakespeare's timeless tragedy Hamlet into a colorful adventure game, full of itemless logic puzzles, boss battles and seemingly little pathos. Oh, and Claudius has a guitar, so there's at least one thing that's true to the original. The clip after the trailer may give your English professor fits, but if you're intrigued, you can plan to get thee to a funnery on April 8. [Via IndieGames.com]
