Monday, December 9, 2013

Io Vivo - Horror Interactive Audio Experience


What is an Interactive AudioExperience?

Interactive Audio Experience is a type of video game where the textual and graphic elements are entirely substituted by the audio component. In this respect, it would be more precise to call it an “audio game”. 

Places, objects and characters are presented and described through the protagonist's narration and through the “reconstructed” ambience sounds:  the player interacts with the story's leading character, influencing his main choices and determining the course of events. 

The player will therefore need to make choices in key moments of the narration, by using his/her smartphone: your smartphone will substitute your mouse and keypad, just like your imagination will substitute the visual elements. 

How do I play? 

Trying an Interactive Audio Experience could not be easier! You simply need to immerse yourself in the narration and leave room for your own imagination.

The only instrument you will be able to use, in order to survive, is your smartphone: this means you will need to move, insert codes, take pictures, make phone calls, use your Flashlight, use vocal commands and many other things, to help our hero and other characters get out of trouble... or not.

The bravest listeners will choose which road to follow, will decide who to save and who to condemn, living a totally new experience, which will provide different sensations to different players. 

It's a leap into a dark room, which conceals all the colours of our imagination. It's a leap into the unknown! 

Who knows if blood has the same shade for each and every one of us? 

Accessibility

For this project we are getting in touch with an association of blind people to study an interface fully useable by people with vision problems and to make this platform narrative used by this kind of users.



Diary of a survivor

The audio recordings and the sound construction of the new, interactive Horror Project “Io Vivo” will be realized by Excitech Postworks. 

The first episode, “Diary of a survivor” (running time of 2 hours ca.) will be available in English and Italian and downloadable from app stores.
It will be distributed on the market's different platforms as a standalone app.

The app, will offer the opportunity to purchase the following episodes “In App”.

The sound design and the final mix of the scenes it's made by our staff. The engine for the game must be built around these audio clips to allow the player to choose how to get the story.

The game will have a minimal interface, you must use the opportunities that really a smartphone offers simulating the actions that the protagonist takes in history. The player (and the protagonist) in some situations will need to dial a phone number (in an interface that simulates the call) or another to choose how to proceed events, decide to use or not the led flashlight, throw a punch (detected by the accelerometer of the device), etc. ..

The casting is currently being completed; the voice-over artists involved in the Italian version, will be Rome-based actors regularly involved in the dubbing of film and television projects.

The director in charge will be Stefano Brusa, who has a long-standing experience in dubbing and radio projects.



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