Binji presents an updated version of their animated story trailer. This trailer sums up the background
story of "Still Alive" - an upcoming survival platformer for PC, Mac & Linux.
If you want to know more about the story behind "Still Alive", read another part of it below.
Additionally, you can visit the Disaster Diaries in the Still Alive forum – and read short stories
of other survivors, which they left for the world to find.
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“From the beginning on, nobody had expected the world to ever be the same again. Not after that
devastating catastrophe. But it was much too late when we finally understood the full extent to which our world had changed.
After the meteor shower, Earth was left in havoc. Lands were desolated and our entire ecosystem was down the drain. But people did what humans have done since the dawn of time: they started to rebuild everything that had been destroyed.
Hope began to bud in the hearts of the humans, but it lasted only a few years.
It started with rumors, stories of people disappearing and strange creatures roaming in abandoned areas. Unfortunately, the rumors became reality soon enough, and with reports of strange deaths happening worldwide, they had to make it official: An alien life form had hitched a ride on the meteorites. It had arrived unnoticed on our beloved Mother Earth, and had spread all over it without any resistance.
Scientists have named the alien species “Nexolyths“. There is no worse enemy imaginable: the Nexolyths are micro-organisms thinking and acting in a collective. As if that wasn't enough they are capable of bio-engineering any living species.
This means they are able to enter any organism and alter it to theirliking. That is how the Screetchers were created...
Screetchers are former human beings, taken over by the Nexolyths and then changed into wild, dangerous beasts, who have the sole purpose to hunt and kill.
That is the enemy we are facing. As I say “we“, I mean the little of the human population that is left,
scattered and looking only after their own survival. I have seen things... the most frightening and cruel things possible. And I have heard of even worse things happening elsewhere. I myself have killed
to survive. And I will do it again, if that is what I have to do.
I am a survivor. I am still alive.“
