Adventure game 30 Birds announced for Switch
ARTE, RTBF, Ram Ram Games, and Business Goose today announced the upcoming project 30 Birds. It’s due out at the end of 2024.
30 Birds is an adventure game inspired by Persian mythology. Players will also solve puzzles as a detective, who started out on the hunt for the ‘The Scientist’, but gets a new lead when the city’s patron goddess, Simurgh, is suddenly kidnapped by the international criminal.
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30 Birds is a poetic and light-hearted game that combines an oriental fairy tale with a thrilling investigation.
Zig, a young woman and mysterious detective, wanders through a mystical world of spinning lanterns to find the thirty birds that will enable her to save Simurgh, the missing patron goddess. Along the way, Zig encounters curious characters and colourful challenges.
In this mesmerising journey, the player takes on the role of Zig as she navigates through breathtaking landscapes and solves fun and complex puzzles in an attempt to unravel the mystery of Simurgh’s disappearance.
The stunning artistic direction of 30 BIRDS was inspired by a trip to Istanbul during which the two creators, Coline Sauvand and Laurent Toulouse, discovered Persian miniatures, a 15th-century Persian pictorial tradition.
After producing a book in 2014, ‘Le Carnet d’Istanbul’, featuring a story, sketches and revisited Persian miniatures, they wanted to transcribe their experience and use their illustrations to create a video game.
The hand-painted sets in 30 Birds create a captivating, enchanted world where 2D and 3D complement each other in a unique way to the rhythm of the electro soundtrack.
For a look at 30 Birds in action, watch the trailer below.
