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ABOUT US & DARKNESS ANOMALY
VASSAGO STUDIO
Im Roma, the project leader and the founder of Vassago Studio. Vassago Studio is located in Germany and is also named after a character in the game. I've received some great support from amazing people who had helped me to develop this game.
Started out over one and a half years ago with this project, i invest all of my time, my passion,
my heart and my creativity which i am able to transpose with THE CRYENGINE.
DARKNESS ANOMALY
Its an heavily story driven horror game. As a detective, Nick Revees you have to solve cases, the mysteries of Kindgom Valley,
facing your enemies and facing your past. Solving puzzles, to reveal secrets, talk to people and fight your enemies
are some of the tasks which await you in Darkness Anomaly.
QUICK FACTS
NAME: DARKNESS ANOMALY
GENRE: HORROR | ADVENTURE
GAMEPLAY: SINGLEPLAYER | VR SUPPORT
PLATFORMS: STEAM | GOG | WINDOWS STORE | XONE (eventual)
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH | GERMAN | RUSSIAN | CHINESE (eventual)
RELEASE DATE: TBA
THE STORY & THE GAMEPLAY OF DARKNESS ANOMALY
It all starts with Aaron. Through the years , with Lights accumulated knowledge on occult religions.
Trough his strong aura, he was able to collect followers and build a cult to summons Vassago trough a ritual by killing
three people and steal Vassago's might to order to pursue his ideology.
This becomes a big thing in the small town, Kingdom Valley. For the local police, it is too much to handle, so they ask for help for the next big city, Cleveland.
Where Nick Revees is a successful detective. To solve this case, he's the one who was sended out to Kindgom Valley for his prehistory with this town.
Nick was born in Kingdom Valley. He grew up, with his voilent alcohol addict father. So he moved away and became a detective.
As Vassago's might will be stolen, he tries aswell to save the humanity he learned to love trough years. He ask's Nick, to help him to get his might back.
And at this point, a mind game battle starts between Nick, Light and Vassago. To gain more power, Light has to sacrifice 7 people in the name of the deadly sins.
Thats where the gameplay comes in.
As the player, you have to solve this 7 cases to get near to Light. To uncover his identity and to be able to fight against him with Vassago's help.
You enter the world of Kindgom Valley by your own. You have your motel where you sleep, the bar,
the police station and the whole city to explore aswell as the wood parts of the town.
Your first case as the player, will be a dead woman found in an alley. As you follow the hints the body left.
You encounter strange things happening to you. (thats where the horror comes in).
You will find out that the soul of this dead woman, slowly becomes a manifistation of the deadly sin she made in her life.
She becomes a lost soul. A being of pure will to get back to life, by taking yours.
To prevent this, you have to find out who she was, what she did and why she did.
To decide at the end which sin it was and weak the power of the lost soul to encounter her in a fight.
To be able to find out information about the killed people. You have to become a detective by yourself as the player.
By asking the citizens of the town, by solving puzzles in an oldisch way.
In some cases you have to act by yourself and not only in the game to solve cases.
Righting things down, searching for things in books or the internet. Aswell as note every little thing and every little thing that people will say just by sitting in bar.
Like in one case, on a dead body, there will be writting "My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."
This has something to do with the case and the story. Later in the game, in a bar someone will mention "that in the town, someone is a big Woody Allen Fan"
So thats your option, weither you ignore it, or you search this saying and you will find out that, thats actually a Woody Allen Quote.
So are you gonna ask the people about the Woody Allen Fan? Or will you just ignore it?
Its up to you. You are the detective you decide what to do.
Aswell as you got a badge. You a detective. By asking out people in the town, you will be able to get the right anwser out of people or get the truth by,
showing your badge where is needed, or maybe, to ask friendy is the right way?
On this decision the whole conversation takes its own turning. Someone can get angry if you show the badge,
in that case you can put your hands on the holster of you weapon? Maybe that will calm them down. Or not 
PHILOSOPHY
The idea of Darkness Anomaly was to bind the player emotional to the world of Kingdom Valley, to the characters,
make their actions understandable and accountable. Not to make it a simple shooter with some horror elements,
but make every bullet you have, an important decision. You don't have a big arsenal of weapons,
you just have as a detective you are your weapon. To think before you shoot, to be able to understand to consequences of hurting someone.
With horror, thats not filled with Jump Scares, but filled with a decent hidden of paranio, of someone constantly watching you.
There is a system i am using in this game, where every event you encounter leads to another one. For this you have to explore the world.
You can rush through from a task to another, but you wont be able to unfold the whole experience, Darkness Anomaly will be offering you. Ever
Edited by: RomaHassanih
