CLeM Backstage Tales: From a nineteenth Century Home to a Puzzlevania Surroundings

In our earlier Wire submit we shared some insights on the origin of the story and the participant character of our sport CLeM. Now we’d prefer to share some concepts that influenced the design of one of the vital necessary characters within the sport: the home.

Right here at Mango Protocol we pleasure ourselves within the skill to take a look at the true world and extract marvel, thriller and enjoyable from our typically worn and mundane environment. Thus, we’ve been turning our gaze to the issues round us and injecting tons of those ideas into our video Games for the reason that inception of the studio.

When creating CLeM, all of us agreed that we needed to discover the right setting for our sport with escape room vibes to happen in. Fortunately, we had entry to Torre Elias, which, apart from being a hauntingly lovely nineteenth century conventional Catalan home, is Mariona’s ancestral residence! You wouldn’t reject having complete entry to a protected architectural heritage constructing, proper? Effectively, neither did we.

Right here’s the primary avenue facade, the one that you would be able to see when strolling round CLeM’s home backyard.

The home has been inhabited because it was constructed. Each era has managed to depart their mark by adapting or rebuilding elements of the home to stick with it to trendy residing requirements. That basically helped us to convey that “empty however probably not deserted” look to CLeM’s home. We wished you to discover the completely different rooms and halls and have that feeling of a spot that, not so way back, was vigorous and supplied a pleasant residence for a household.

Torre Elias kitchen is a pleasant instance of furnishings that appears outdated for right now’s requirements however is certainly trendy in distinction to how an 1800s kitchen may need been.

In that earlier image you possibly can see how Mariona tailored that blend of outdated and older furnishings to the sport.

In fact, whenever you inherit an historic architectural jewel of a house, you could introduce some modifications to make it habitable, however there’s some issues that move the take a look at of time with flying colours and also you wish to maintain at residence in any respect prices. A pair examples of this are, on one aspect, the marvelous hydraulic tiles and wall work resembling wallpaper, each lovely staples of Catalan Modernism which Mariona managed to translate completely into the sport’s type.

And, on the opposite aspect, there’s the small gadgets, those who convey the private style of every inhabitant to the home. Take a look at these cast-iron wall lamps that ended up lighting an in-Game hall together with these sample wall decorations and much more hydraulic tiling. Seems these low mild corridors and tones have been an ideal match for the temper we wished for the least modernized rooms in CLeM’s home.

Talking of small gadgets, Mariona picked some ornamental and inventive objects to fill the home with aptitude and character. A few of them I managed to include into puzzles, letting you join at some stage with the characters that lived in that home and coexisted with these specific gadgets. This Bristol glass jar will certainly catch your eye within the first phases of CLeM. It’s one in all these objects that helps bringing a cohesive setting and on the similar time find yourself being related to the event of the gameplay.

Lastly, I’d prefer to stress the significance of the artworks that you just’ll be capable of discover round the home. Mariona made the trouble of filling CLeM’s home partitions with some iconic feminine artists’ works. These footage additionally helped to encourage a number of the puzzles.

Have a tour round the home and luxuriate in homages of work like Vanessa Bell’s “The Pond at Charleston”, Tamara de Lempicka’s “Plante grasse et fiole” or “Pianist” by cubist artist Maria Blanchard, which impressed a part of a musical puzzle within the sport.

I hope you loved this walkthrough alongside the real-world iNFLuences that helped construct our beloved home. You possibly can discover it proper now, as CLeM, our acclaimed puzzle journey with escape room vibes and a darkish story to unveil, is out now on Xbox Sequence X|S and Xbox One.

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CLeM is a narrative-driven puzzle journey sport with a darkish twist. Get up in a world the place puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a novel narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It provides you goal. To information you, you discover a pocket book with mysterious entries and a home to discover.

EXPERIENCE A DARK ADVENTURE FULL OF MYSTERY
You awaken in a chilly, dimly lit room, your senses slowly adjusting to the environment that, oddly, really feel acquainted. An odd sensation lingers in you, reminding you that one thing isn’t fairly proper. As you discover your bearings, your consideration is drawn to a peculiar merchandise on the bottom. A pocket book labeled “CLeM” lies earlier than you. As you delve into its pages, lined with intricate sketches of bugs accompanied by imprecise symbols, you discover a word containing a cryptic message: “Carry me BEAUTY.” Misplaced in deciphering the contents, a voice interrupts your focus.

SOLVE PUZZLES AND FIND YOUR WAY
Puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a novel narrative expertise we name “puzzlevania” with a shadowy story to unravel and numerous challenges to beat.

CRAFT ENCHANTED TOYS AND UNCOVER SECRETS
Craft magic toys to unveil hidden secrets and techniques, entry unreachable spots, and reclaim gadgets from the previous as you uncover new revelations in acquainted areas.

DISCOVER A CUTE AND DARK WORLD
Examine a seemingly desolate home accompanied solely by an obscure voice and a pocket book filled with annotations and drawings on alchemy, bugs, and different creepy crawlies.

EMBRACE YOUR DESTINY
Select your destiny on this darkish story of manipulation, pleasure, forgiveness, and redemption.