Genio is a videogame about engineering, art and power: building the Renaissance. It is a card based real time strategy game with a simple, approachable user interface, that anybody (8 year old & upper) can play.
The project has a digital part, the videogame, a part between digital and analogical, blueprints of Leonardian models for 3D printers, and finally an analogical part, where we will build real toys designed by Leonardo. These toys are not toy models of Leonardo machines, but come from an original consideration: Leonardo sketches models of toys while he is studying the physical laws of motion.
The team that put it together is totally indie, and has worked up to now self funding all the work. Before searching for crowd funding, we built a browser Javascript prototype, created the graphic line and part of the assets.
Being built with Unity, it is now on Kickstarter and... needs your help! The Kickstarter project is here and live now (March, 25th).
