Korsakovia

Overview

Korsakovia is a single-player experimental mod from the makers of Dear Esther.

Features

• Fuses abstract storytelling of Dear Esther with more traditional gameplay
• Experiments with alternative visualisation of agents
• Lots of playing around with visual effects and environmental build

Media

Team

Korsakovia was developed for the earth-shattering sum of approximately £10,500 as an internal grant from the University of Portsmouth, as part of the ongoing chineseroom project into experimental FPS gaming.

The core ideas behind thechineseroom are that

a) there are important and interesting questions about FPS gaming that cannot be answered simply by studying and analysing commercial titles, and that it's necessary to experiment and build in order to address them and

b) that there's no reason why a research project shouldn't be any less playable and 'fun' than a non-research project (i.e. a 'normal' game). On top of that, if you want to really make something that is true to the medium, then it should stand or fall as a game in its own right, and players should be able to engage with in on those terms.

Previous releases as part of the project include Dear Esther (Source), Conscientious Objector (Doom3/idTech4) and Antlion Soccer (Source).

All are available freely from www.moddb.com/members/chineseroom

If you have any questions about thechineseroom project or any of our mods, please contact me at dan.pinchbeck@port.ac.uk

More information about us can be found at

www.thechineseroom.co.uk

Korsakovia dev team:

Korsakovia was written and produced by Dan Pinchbeck The environment was designed by Dan Pinchbeck and Adam Griffiths and built by Adam Griffiths with additional build by Dan Pinchbeck and Ankur Shah Coding was by Maksim Mitrofanov Audio and music was by Jessica Curry (www.jessicacurry.co.uk) Genevieve Adam voiced Doctor Christine Grayson and Ben Crystal voiced Christopher The voice acting was recorded at Middle Street Studios, UK, by Phil Thompson

Playtesters were: Nick Mower Donkey81 Eli Just Maksim Mitrofanov Saryken (who also debugged a level for us) Albert Teng

External links

• Korsakovia page on ModDB including link to download
• thechineseroom project website