Press release:
July 29, 2019 – Seoul, Korea/… Today, publisher Intragames Co. Ltd announced that it is publishing “Bookbound Brigade“, a new take on the established Metroidvania genre from indie developer Digital Tales.
The game will be released later this year on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC, and will be playable at Gamescom, Cologne, August 20th to 22nd.
Bookbound Brigade is about beating the hell out of historical and literary characters you studied in school by leading a dream team of real and fictional heroes through a 2D side-scrolling platform-adventure.
It will take the likes of Dracula, King Arthur, Queen Victoria, Nikola Tesla, Cassandra, Dorothy Gale, Sun Wukong the Monkey King and Robin Hood to assemble and avenge a world plunged into chaos following the theft of the ‘Book of Books’, a volume encompassing every single work of fiction and non-fiction ever written.
Game Features:
– Explore, fight, backtrack, grow your skills and tackle challenging quests and puzzles, as in any Metroidvania game worthy of its name, but get ready for a twist…
– There is no single hero in Bookbound Brigade: you play as a party of unique characters, each with their own traits and skills, who move in formation and fight as one.
– All the characters, both playing and non-playing, are drawn from the pages of history and literature, so expect to meet some familiar and less familiar faces!
– The distinctive hand-drawn visuals, inspired by book illustration from all time, stray far from the pixel art dominating the Metroidvania genre.
Play Bookbound Brigade at Gamescom, August 20th to 22nd
Digital Tales is now booking appointments to play Bookbound Brigade at Gamescom 2019 in Cologne, located on the Italian pavilion in Business Hall 3.2 Booth D010-E019. The Producer & Marketing Manager, Alessandra Tomasina and the Lead Game Designer, Fabio Respighi will be at Gamescom. To book an appointment, contact: [email protected]
Bookbound Brigade will be released digitally later this year on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC.
Intragames
Based out of Seoul and publishing games worldwide, Intragames works for delivering the joy of playing games to the world.
The publisher endeavors to make healthy entertainment contents, and to build a creative gaming culture.
With more than 15 years of solid experience in game publishing, distribution, and indie game funding, Intragames strives to be a company beloved by gamers through delivering passion and pride of its games.
www.intragames.co.kr
Digital Tales
Founded in 2006 and based in Milan, with offices in Rome and Miami, Digital Tales develops games, e-Learning solutions and anything in between, including edutainment, gamified training courses and VR/AR apps.
Its racing and action-adventure games are based on a proprietary cross-platform C++ framework and third-party engines. Besides collaborating with established developers and publishers, the studio has self-published chart-topping, award-winning mobile games totaling 45M downloads worldwide.
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Jonas “O.J” Ek
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