Why remake?

Hello!

It's been a while since we last updated our page here in RMN. We released Wanda - A Beautiful Apocalypse about more than a year ago in 2016 and we thought we were done with the game.

How wrong we were! In hindsight, it's apparent that the game was quite flawed! We've received lukewarm responses from people who like/enjoyed the game, but we also received legitimate criticism about the game as well. Especially, the jarring pacing of the original version.

After giving some thoughts, we felt like we could do the game better and decided to remake the entire game from scratch using recent RPG Maker MV. It's going to be a complete remake with new contents and not 1:1 port of the game. For those who have already purchased the original version (from both Steam and Itch), worry not! We are not going to double dip! The existing game will be updated with the remake once it is completed.

What we would like to improve!

First of all and obviously, the game's visual will be vastly improved. RPG Maker MV supports multiple animated parallax layers without straining the machine. This gives us more creative ground to make visually superior map compared to the old version.

In original, most of the maps are just static pictures. We'd like to improve that by making the map more dynamic and alive in this remake!

Here are a few examples of visual improvements over original version.

New Dynamic Title Screen from Remake. The Title Screen will randomly loads to different scenes each time you start the game new. (currently showing only one in the video)



An enhanced remake map.



Parallax Map with dynamic weather effects



An example of a dynamic parallax map with some simple water-physic effect.



In original version, we severely limit the player's control in the game with little to no exploration most of the time. Even someone who praised the game said Wanda is "Cutscene : The Game". We'd like to remedy this by giving player more control over the game and add new exploration maps and even new puzzles in the game.

New Puzzle!


Last but not least, there was a hidden story in original version featuring another couple of bots from the past, Greenbot and Yellowbot. Due to time and budget constraints, we couldn't fully realize this story in the original and only hinted that story as collectible images. In the remake, we are going to expand this story allowing players to experience the past and different side of Wanda - A Beautiful Apocalypse.



Thank you very much for giving us your time! We will be updating the old demo with the new one very soon! If you have any feedback to share with us, please do! We would love to hear from you. See you all again in next update!

-Cheers

Wanda - A Beautiful Apocalypse DEMO is out!

Release Trailer!


Artwork Trailer


A brief synopsis :

Wanda is a 2D story-driven puzzler, set in a post-apocalyptic world. Unlike most post-apocalyptic stories, Wanda is not a tale about desperate survival, but a gentle story about finding the happiness, hope and companionship in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The game tells the tale about two simple minded survivors of a forgotten world trying to find the meaning of their lives in child-like innocence. What will they find at the end of the journey...?

You can download the DEMO for Wanda now!
If you have trouble downloading it, you can try alternative download at itch.io.

Have fun playing the demo! The game is set to be released on June 3rd! Feel free to give some feedback to me after playing the DEMO.

Wanda Kickstarter Campaign, the Final Hours

Wanda kickstater campaign is entering the final hours. We've already made it to the initial funding goal and now racing for stretch goal! Here is the list of our new stretch goals!



Here is the detailed explanation about our stretch goal.

Let Them Speak to Your Soul :

We want the big bot and the small bot to have their own custom emotive "beep" and "blip" SFX like the famous R2-D2 and BB-8 from Star Wars. It'll greatly enhance the experience, no doubt. Help us reach the goal, let them speak to your soul!

Reach Beyond the Stars :

Once we reach the 5800 AUD goal, Wanda will be "remade" with a newer, more powerful RPG Maker MV Engine. This will allow us to use hi-definition images with better resolution. Note that it'll be an entirely new game. Current version of Wanda will be released first. All the backers from 7$ tier and above will get the enhanced remake of Wanda once we finished developing it with no extra charge. It will be released for both PC and Mac, unlike original version which is for PC only.

Please, take a look at possible graphical improvements here.

Original version


Enhanced version remade in MV


A Portable Adventure :

The enhanced remake will be ported to both iOS and Android platforms. Take Wanda and enjoy this little adventure everywhere and anywhere!!!

That's all about our Kickstater project. Show us some support! The clock is ticking!

Hello!

Finally got a crowdfunding project started for Wanda. Please have a look. Your help is indispensable for minuscule developers like us.

Wanda is on Kickstarter!

Why kickstarter? Isn't your project self-funded already?

It's true. Wanda is being developed by just the two of us and all self-funded. The game design, story and original artworks are handled by us. We, however, cannot make music.

Wanda is a story-based puzzle game with strong narrative, which mainly portray the story by "show, but don't tell" style of narrative with little or no comprehensible dialogue. To make a scene emotionally powerful, we have to rely on both visual and audio presentation and we'd like put an ending vocal theme to the game too. For that, we need to hire a talented composer, singer, song-writer and a recording studio.

We figured it'll be a lot faster with helping hands from people then the two of us struggling to make the ends meet. Please have a look at our project. If you found the premise interesting, please consider supporting us.

It's a bit random, but as a part of her art project, Haru (Wanda's Artist) have to make a short comic. She decided to turn a part of Wanda's storyline into comic. This is a preview of Wanda Comic project.

We hope you like it :)



Trailer: