Mandrake is in Telltale’s Choices Matter Festival this week, so we’re taking the opportunity to talk about some of the foundational choices for your character in Mandrake. If you’d like to see a little of the following in video form, you’ll be able to catch our segment at 22:30 BST on the 10th of August - today! - and later on our YouTube.
Unusually for our games, in Mandrake a number of things are already determined about your character. You’re always a Mandrake, the last descendant of the aristocratic family that once ruled the region. You’re always a gardener-sorcerer, resuming arts long-forgotten and long-forbidden. And you’re always a newcomer to Penhallion and the village of Chandley, having been born and raised in a far-off land.
But that still leaves plenty of room to decide things about your character: name, appearance, history. We don’t want character creation in Mandrake to be complex or time-consuming – after all, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to define your character with your choices throughout the game. But we do want to give you the chance to make some basic decisions about their past, to provide an initial glimpse of the world beyond Chandley, and to provide more variety for future playthroughs.
(I’ve used some screenshots to illustrate the choices. Please bear in mind all these are in-progress; they contain placeholder icons, and are subject to change!)
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