Way to the Woods by Anthony Tan. Launch date in 2019.
Way to the Woods is the brainchild of Anthony Tan, an eighteen-year-old student from Melbourne, Australia. Slated for release on the PC and console in 2019, the gameβs announcement trailer depicts a third-person adventure storyline, where the player controls a doe and her fawn traversing a post-human world to find their way home.Β
Tan first entered the public consciousness in 2015, when he posted screenshots of the game on Reddit, which led to widespread attention and an eventual publishing deal from the label Team17. Way to the Woods is powered by Unreal Engine 4 and is accompanied by a soundtrack from London musician Jeremy Warmsley. The scenes are hand-drawn by Tan, who maintains a stylistically graphic and elegant aesthetic throughout the trailer. Tan cites the Studio Ghibli films Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, as well as similarly post-apocalyptic game The Last of Us, as inspirations for Way to the Woods.
Images courtesy of Anthony Tan.
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