CLeM Backstage Tales: From a Nineteenth Century Home to a Puzzlevania Setting

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 some of the necessary characters within the sport: the home.

Right here at Mango Protocol we pleasure ourselves within the means to take a look at the true world and extract marvel, thriller and enjoyable from our generally 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 because the inception of the studio.

When creating CLeM, all of us agreed that we needed to discover the right surroundings for our sport with escape room vibes to happen in. Fortunately, we had entry to Torre Elias, which, apart from being a hauntingly stunning Nineteenth century conventional Catalan home, is Mariona’s ancestral house! You wouldn’t reject having complete entry to a protected architectural heritage constructing, proper? Properly, 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 components of the home to stick with it to fashionable dwelling requirements. That actually helped us to convey that “empty however not likely 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 offered a pleasant house for a household.

Torre Elias kitchen is a pleasant instance of furnishings that appears previous for right this moment’s requirements however is unquestionably fashionable in distinction to how an 1800s kitchen may need been.

In that earlier image you may see how Mariona tailored that blend of previous and older furnishings to the sport.

In fact, if you inherit an historical architectural jewel of a house, it’s possible you’ll introduce some adjustments to make it habitable, however there’s some issues that move the check of time with flying colours and also you need to maintain at house in any respect prices. A pair examples of this are, on one facet, the marvelous hydraulic tiles and wall work resembling wallpaper, each stunning staples of Catalan Modernism which Mariona managed to translate completely into the sport’s type.

And, on the opposite facet, there’s the small objects, those who convey the non-public style of every inhabitant to the home. Have 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 had been an ideal match for the temper we wished for the least modernized rooms in CLeM’s home.

Talking of small objects, 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 degree with the characters that lived in that home and coexisted with these specific objects. This Bristol glass jar will certainly catch your eye within the first phases of CLeM. It’s one among these objects that helps bringing a cohesive surroundings and on the identical time find yourself being related to the event of the gameplay.

Lastly, I’d prefer to stress the significance of the artistic endeavors that you simply’ll be capable to discover round the home. Mariona made the hassle of filling CLeM’s home partitions with some iconic feminine artists’ works. These footage additionally helped to encourage a few 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’ll be able to 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 Collection 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 singular narrative rooted in alchemy. A voice awakens you. It provides you function. 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. A wierd sensation lingers in you, reminding you that one thing shouldn’t be 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 obscure symbols, you discover a observe containing a cryptic message: “Deliver me BEAUTY.” Misplaced in deciphering the contents, a voice interrupts your focus.

SOLVE PUZZLES AND FIND YOUR WAY
Puzzles intertwine with exploration, weaving a singular 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 objects 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 stuffed 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.