The Midnight Walk is coming to PS5 and PS VR2 next year
blog.playstation.comMoonhood is over the moon to announce The Midnight Walk – a dark fantasy adventure made of clay, coming to PS5 and PS VR2!
Imagine waking up in a handcrafted world, where every fingerprint can be spotted up close, every molded twist and turn of clay visible on the ground you walk… and on the monsters trying to eat you.
In the Midnight Walk, you awake as The Burnt One, a mysterious being who’s dug themselves out of a muddy grave to find their purpose. They find it in Potboy – a little dormant lantern creature that you reignite and bring back to life.
Together you must venture down the Midnight Walk – a perilous, nightmarish highway and, along the way, survive five strange tales about fire; its lifegiving warmth as well as its inherent danger. You’ll outsmart ghoulish enemies, meet a fantastical cast of companions, and gaze in wonder at our hand-crafted world. That’s right; every asset in the game was first sculpted in clay before being 3D-scanned into the game and animated in a stop motion style!
But how did we at Moonhood come to create such a strange adventure?
Not long ago Klaus Lyngeled and I were both going through a creative drought after finishing co-directing our last project, Lost in Random. How do you follow up on a massive game like that? We asked ourselves, and went looking to rediscover that spark.
While I went back to drawing comics, Klaus started working in clay again, creating sculptures and 3D-scanning them!
One day he came to me with a little creature built in clay; a childlike humanoid with a flame coming out of its head. We immediately started talking about a game where you’d have to protect this little creature as you journeyed through a dark fairytale world, filled with fire-eating monsters who want to devour you and your flame.
And as that little flame creature came to life in our first playable mockup demo, so was a spark relit in both me and Klaus. The creation of the Midnight Walk was underway – and we haven’t looked back since.
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