Ceville
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| Studio | Realmforge Studios | ||
| Publisher |
 Kalypso Media Kalypso Media Focus Home Interactive 1C Company 
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| Senior Developer | Benjamin Rauscher, Christian Wolfertstetter | ||
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February 19, 2009 | ||
| platform | Windows | ||
| Game engine | SOMA | ||
| genre | Point-and-click adventure | ||
| Subject | Fantasy | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
| medium | DVD, download | ||
| language | German, English, French, Russian | ||
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Ceville is a point-and-click adventure from the Munich developer Realmforge Studios from 2009.
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The fairy tale kingdom of Faeryanis is ruled by the tyrant Ceville. One day the people rise up against him, Ceville is thrown into prison, and his kind-hearted wife Gwendolyn takes the throne in his place. It turns out that Ceville's advisor Basilius is behind the rebellion and is striving for the crown himself. With the help of the dwarf girl Lilly, Ceville is able to escape from prison, and together with the paladin Ambrosius they set out as a trio to recapture the throne for Ceville.
Game principle and technology
Ceville is a 3D point-and-click adventure . For polygons composite, three-dimensional figures to act likewise in three-dimensional scenes. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Ceville, Lilly and Ambrosius can find objects, apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. The camera shows what is happening from a variable perspective; If the player leaves the field of vision within a room, the camera moves and takes a new, better position. Occasionally, several characters have to be controlled at the same time, in this case the display is implemented via a split screen . Dialogs take place via context-related selection menus, cut-scenes mostly take place in game graphics. Some puzzles have to be solved within a time limit, which is considered bad design among adventure purists. Ceville gives more generous time limits for further attempts to solve the respective puzzle.
A special feature of the game is that the player in the form of Ceville takes on the role of an "evil" character and has to advance the plot in part through "evil" deeds. However, this is always done in a humorous and therefore trivializing way.
Production notes
The development work for Ceville began in 1997 at the Munich company Weltenschmiede, which actually specialized in application programming and web design. The three-person team developed the SOMA engine, which is based on the OGRE graphics engine , as well as a prototype from Ceville and used it to search for publishers. Meanwhile, the company changed its name to Boxed Dreams, possibly to avoid confusion with the Munich-based company Weltenschmiede , which is also based in Munich and also active in the adventure sector . A publisher was found in Kalypso Media. In November 2008 Kalypso founded the development studio Realmforge Studios in Munich and integrated the now ten-person team from Boxed Dreams into the new studio. The speakers for the German version included Kerstin Draeger , Alicia Endemann , Joscha Fischer-Antze , Mogens von Gadow , Isabella Grothe , Thomas Karallus and Robert Missler . Mini-skill games originally integrated into the game were removed before the game was released because, according to designer Christian Wolferstetter, they were "less entertaining than expected". Financially, Ceville was not a success, which is why publisher Kalypso Media announced the withdrawal from the adventure business. In December 2009, Kalypso Media published a game called Ceville, also developed by Realmforge, for mobile devices with an iOS operating system, which is a game of skill in which the most important characters of the adventure appear.
reception
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From 17 aggregated ratings, Ceville achieved a score of 73 on Metacritic. GameStar attested the game "great puzzle design and lots of humor" and found that Ceville was "one of the funniest and most imaginative that the genre has produced in recent years". IGN magazine highlighted a successful character drawing and described the main character Ceville as a mixture of Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder and Danny DeVito . IGN also praised the puzzles, the localization of the game developed in Germany into English and the humor, as well as the successful allusions to classics of video game history. The magazine criticized technical weaknesses that led to repeated crashes. The specialist magazine Adventure-Treff noted numerous minor graphics, control and sound errors and called Ceville "optically flashy", but praised the gameplay, puzzle design and voice output and called Ceville the "first adventure highlight of the year" (2009). The now magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung praised the game story, puzzle design and synchronization, criticized the lack of detail in the game graphics and the wooden movements of the characters in places and concluded that Ceville was "a must for comic adventure gamers".
Ceville was nominated for the LARA Family Award 2009 but did not win the title.
Web links
- Official website
- Ceville at MobyGames (English)
- Walkthrough of the game
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filfre.net: The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ^ Ceville [early alpha demo]. Adventure-Treff, archived from the original on April 20, 2016 ; Retrieved April 10, 2016 (original website no longer available).
- ↑ Gameboomers.com: An Interview with Christian Wolferstetter of Boxed Dream. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Adventure-Treff.de: Kalypso turns away from adventure. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ↑ 4Players.de: Ceville. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ^ AdventureGamers.com: Ceville. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Adventure-Treff.de: Ceville. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b GameStar.de: Adventure surprise from Germany. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b IGN.com: Ceville. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Ceville. Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Suzee Wong: Ceville. In: Now. Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, May 6, 2009, accessed October 4, 2019 .