The Obscura Experiment

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• Patch Notes·9 Mar 2023Official

  Small achievement patch

  - Fixed the death counter for "In Once Piece" achievement. - Fixed "Pull the lever!" achievement. - Fixed "The Explorer" achievement. - Fixed "iRepair" achievement. - Fixed "Happens to the best of us" achievement. - Fixed "Don’t give up!" achievement. - Fixed "Should we make the game easier?" achievement.
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• Announcements·7 Mar 2023Official

  The Obscura Experiment is now available!

  Hello everyone! This marks the end of months of production, and our very first game release as students. We have learned many things along the way, faced many hardships, but we are so incredibly proud to finally bring you this horror sci-fi experience. We hope you enjoy the game! We also wanted to share some never-seen before concept art, which helped us shape our game into what it is today. Happy launch day, and from everyone at the Anabasis & Co. team, welcome aboard! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43628813/8fe1e1c62559a1722297933e0602a802daf42d06.png Originally, we had four crew members aboard our ship. However, judging with our resources and the time we had to create this project, we had to make the decision to only keep the characters that were already modeled. It was a hard decision to make, but we learned how to better understand our scope. Concept by Sidney Torck {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43628813/8a9bbf064c7649c0a60bad100d57ae196e121040.png Concept for our generators. We decided to go with the rounder model, as it felt more dynamic and offered a different silhouette than a lot of our other assets. Concept by Elsie Yip {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43628813/23820ae96eac868d4428b72306075dcd93bb13c5.png Originally, the player also had to manage their oxygen levels on the ship. Our characters had oxygen masks and a backpack that served as an oxygen tank, and there were oxygen stations to replenish the tanks, as you can see in the bottom left. Throughout the production of our game, the mechanics changed a lot, and while we no longer have to manage oxygen, we still kept the assets that were already modeled. Since the masks were there from the beginning, we hadn’t planned to animate our characters talking, so we kept the masks to avoid making the animations for it as well as to remind the player of the fact that we are on a failing spaceship. The oxygen station has also been converted into the energy stations you see onboard to refill your tablet. Concept by Elsie Yip {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/436288...
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• Announcements·27 Feb 2023Official

  Behind The Scenes : In search of a title

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43628813/9124cf4ef85300d121cd6d350fe76007556f8105.png Hello everyone! With the release of the game next week, we feel it’s time that we started revealing a few things behind the development of The Obscura Experiment. For example, we only got an official name for our game in the middle of production! Finding an original name for a game is never easy. When we first thought about it, we wanted the title to be the name of our monster: Dark Matter. Turns out that there already was a bunch of games using the exact name as their own title! We concluded on The Obscura Experiment after a week of research, debate and voting! Here’s a small list of names that were scratched for various reasons: • The Dark Matter Project • Astrophobia • It Came From Beyond • Station Alpha • Project Cimmerian • Dark Entropy The discussions would go on for so long that we would get really tired and would propose very ridiculous names like: • Avoid • Nothingness • Unsolved Problems • Weird Stuff • The Dark Spinner • Invisible Darkness At the end of the day, our team agreed on The Obscura Experiment as we felt it gave the right connotation of sci-Fi and horror. It’s a name that we grew fond of while we developed the rest of our game. Stay tuned for more announcement in the next coming days!
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