Factsheet

Developer:
ValkStudio
Based in Portugal

Release date:
September 3 2021

Platforms:
Windows

Website:
indiedb.com/games/oizys

Description

In Oizys, you find yourself in a surreal, abstract, shapeshifting world, that strangely reflects your mood. In order to escape, you have to first understand why you are there while choosing carefully what and who to trust in your own path for the truth. Oizys is a single-player, adventure, puzzle-platformer currently being developed for PC.

History

Our goal developing Oizys was to develop a puzzle game with multiple, parallel universes with a narrative based on feelings of solitude and nostalgia and a component of emotional healing. We also wanted the narrative to explore dualities.

After settling on this, we elaborated in what Oizys was to the main character – and how their struggles and doubts would be represented in this conceptual world. We developed a duality between the roles of intuition and self-doubt and low self-esteem – where elements that usually helped revealed themselves to sometimes be blocking the solution and trying to keep the player trapped in Oizys’ world.

All of this, culminating in a final plot twist – when the player must choose if they will follow the rules they were taught or if they will defy them all and choose to believe in themselves.

The main feature is the loneliness meter, as depending on how lonely Alex character feels, they start moving slower and having more difficulty executing tasks. At the same time, the world appears to get colder, less colorful and more dark. As loneliness gets closer to the maximum level, the game starts mimicking a panick attack: with a narrow vision & heartbeat sound overpowering the rest. At the maximum level, the character falls to the ground to sleep, waking up feeling just a tad little bit better. The only way out becomes through, while the player confronts memories and reconstructs their own story.

Features

• Fight solitude, reconciliate with your past, solve conceptual puzzles
• Loneliness-based Game, where the loneliness level affects the movement speed, mechanics, light and colors in the world
• Puzzle Platformer with Narrative, where it's impossible to die

Oizys Credits

ValkStudio
Studio

David Ramos
Game Developer

Diana Briceño
Game Artist

Matilde Freitas
Game Designer

Contact

Support
ValkStudio.geral@gmail.com

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