Paradigm
| Paradigm | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Jacob Janerka |
| Senior Developer | Jacob Janerka |
| composer | Jonas Kjellberg |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
5th April 2017 |
| platform | macOS , Microsoft Windows |
| Game engine | Visionaire |
| genre | Adventure |
| medium | Download |
| language | English |
Paradigm is an adventure game by the Australian developer Jacob Janerka, which was released in 2017 for Microsoft Windows and macOS .
action
The player takes on the role of Paradigm, a mutant who lives in a post-apocalyptic future in 2026 in an Eastern European country called Krusz and dreams of becoming a famous electronic musician. At the beginning of the game he wants to work on pieces of music from his planned EP with the help of his computer , but the computer does not start. In the search for a boot disk, Paradigm is confronted with its past - it is a failed experiment by Dupa Genetics, which produces desired children for wealthy customers, including Paradigm. During his childhood, this turned out to be bad mutations, so that Dupa Genetics abandoned him in an abandoned small town and left him to his own devices so as not to damage the company's reputation. While searching for his floppy disk, Paradigm comes across the rebel group PAGST fighting against Dupa, whose charismatic leader can win him over, so that the original, simple goal of the game gradually turns into a fight against Dupa and its manager Olof.
Game principle and technology
Paradigm is a point-and-click adventure . From Sprites composite characters act before hand-drawn, some animated 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. Paradigm can thus find objects and apply them to the environment or other objects, as well as communicate with NPCs in multiple-choice dialogues . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. Technically based paradigm on the Visionaire - Engine , which is used in the commercial sector primarily for Adventures, so for many games of the German studios Daedalic .
Production notes
The in Perth living paradigm -author Janerka is computer graphics. Apart from a small role as a spokesman in the indie adventure Shardlight , Paradigm is his first known contact in the computer game industry. For the production of the game, he started a crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter platform , with which 14,000 AUD (at that time just under 10,000 EUR) should be raised from September 2014 . Janerka quit his job in order to be able to concentrate fully on the four-week campaign. A free playable Finally, a good AUD 36,500 (at that time a good EUR 25,500) was achieved. A publication was announced for July 2015; however, this appointment could not be kept. In August 2016, Paradigm was selected as one of six titles to be featured at the PAX Aus Indie Showcase . Ultimately, Paradigm was released in April 2017 via the Steam and Gog platforms . Due to the higher income compared to the planning, some professional speakers could be engaged, for example antagonist Olof is spoken by the British film and theater actor Ian Champion ; smaller roles were taken over by the Australian voice actors Ross O'Donovan and Vitas Varnas. The American spokeswoman Fryda Wolff, who had speaking roles in computer games such as Fallout 4 , Mass Effect: Andromeda or XCOM 2 , took on the role of leader of the PAGST rebels and five smaller roles; In addition to the protagonist Paradigm, author Janerka himself spoke five other roles with a disguised voice and different accents. He also wrote the lyrics for an in-game single, Babe I love you, but I'm a T-Rex , which is a duet between record producer Josh Amphlett and singer / songwriter Dharshini Murugiah. In an interview with the trade magazine Cliqist , Janerka stated that the character of his game world is based on ideas of the future that would have dominated in the 1970s and 1980s.
reception
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From four aggregated ratings, Paradigm scores 86% on GameRankings , Metacritic aggregates five reviews to a score of 83. For IGN, Kosta Andreadis drew comparisons to the "everything is possible" humor from adventures of the 1990s such as Sam and Max and Space Quest . He praised the voice recordings, the "confident" humor and the successful immersion into a foreign era and culture, criticized the simple puzzles and rated Paradigm as a "traditional point-and-click adventure full of warmth and severed heads in jars". The US magazine Destructoid positively pointed out that even supporting characters are detailed and lovingly designed. It noted negatively that the game's humor, which reviewer Dennis Carden found inspiration for in comedian group The Mighty Boosh and the TV series BoJack Horseman , wasn't for everyone. Carden put forward the thesis that the short playing time (which is given in various reviews as about six to ten hours) is an important factor for the functioning of the game, since the humor of author Janerka and thus many situations and twists cannot be foreseen, while with a longer playing time an expectation that would encourage boredom would arise. The Kotaku magazine pointed to a high number of references to films, computer games and pop culture events and described Paradigm as "a kind of museum for a wide variety of science fiction references and adventure sources of inspiration". British magazine Rock, Paper, Shotgun focused on the game's unusual characters, calling the protagonist the "ugliest protagonist in gaming history" and highlighting a few supporting characters such as a computer addicted to internet chat rooms and a beatboxing eggplant. The German indie magazine Adventurecorner described the graphics of the game as rather rough in quality, but full of loving details. The magazine praised "wacky story elements" and the pun of the game and criticized little varied and little demanding puzzles.
At the Aeggie Awards of the trade magazine Adventure Gamers , Paradigm won the 2017 category “Best Character”.
Web links
- Official website
- Trailer on YouTube
- Paradigm at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nerdist.com: We Need To Play A Point-And-Click Seinfeld Adventure Game. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Kickstarter.com: Paradigm - Surreal Adventure Game. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ PCAuthority.com.au: Check out the six winners of the PAX from Indie Showcase 2016. Retrieved on May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ YouTube.com: T-Rex- Babe I love you, but I'm a T-Rex (Feat. Dharshini Murugiah). Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Cliqist.com: Post Apocalyptic Sloths, Hair Care, and Paradigm with Jacob Janerka. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Destructoid.com: Review: Paradigm. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ a b IGN.com: Paradigm Review. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ a b GameRankings.com: Paradigm. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Paradigm. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Kotaku.com: Paradigm Wants You To Confront The Ruling Class. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ RockPaperShotgun.com: Point 'n' Click 'n' Laugh 'n' Kickstart: Paradigm. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Adventurecorner.de: Paradigm. Retrieved May 4, 2017 .
- ↑ AdventureGamers.com: The Aggie Awards - The Best Adventure Games of 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .