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George Orwell’s Animal Farm becoming a video game from the makers of ReignsDon’t write it off
Don’t write it off
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“When we got the opportunity to work with Imre, Andy and the estate of George Orwell to bring Animal Farm to a gaming audience we grabbed it with both hands and set out to make a game that truly honours Orwell’s parable,” Nerial founder Tamara Alliot said. “We were able to bring our genre experience to the project thanks to Reigns, and writer, Emily Short was excited to adapt the text and use her narrative design prowess. Emily has painstakingly studied Orwell’s text to ensure authenticity and verisimilitude.”
Animal Farm is comingto Steamthis autumn. It’ll also be on mobile doodads.
Video games recreating classics of other mediums does often seem weird. It can feel like we’re still desperate to ride their respect towards legitimacy, which we shouldn’t be. We can create our own stories. But using well-known tales can also be powerful, like how the sublime80 Daysrebuilt and retold Verne’s globetrotting adventure as anti-colonialist. Some good folks are making Animal Farm so I am certainly interested in this one.
Right then, who’s going to continue my childhood literary trauma with a Watership Down game boasting ragdolling rabbits and PhysX fluid-simulated blood?
Disclosure: Emily Short wrote an interactive fiction column for RPS,IF Only. It’s still good. You should still read it.
