Personally, back in 1984 I was eleven years old, and obsessed with my ZX Spectrum. This medium has always been about those boundaries, that pushing out, that bending and breaking of rules to do new things, and we hope Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture will earn its place in that. We stand alongside studios and developers who are committed to pushing at the boundaries of what games can be, and that’s being part of a tradition as old as gaming itself. We look back now at the number of story-driven, exploration-driven games that have been produced since and that’s an incredible thing to be part of. Dear Esther stood on the shoulders of giants, drawing on the long, proud design history of first-person gaming, to just try side-stepping into an area we believed was worth exploring. The answer to that question, the last nine years have proved, is a pretty emphatic YES. But don’t worry – the mystery of what happened in Yaughton valley 31 years ago will remain buried in the empty fields and woods for you to discover.Įverybody’s Gone to the Rapture is the culmination of journey Jess and I started back in 2006, when we asked the simple question “what happens if you remove traditional mechanics from a game world? Will that be something people will want to play?”

There’s going to be a lot more news about Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture coming out between now and launch, including a development diary which lifts the hood on how we got from our first ideas, to this game we’ve poured heart and soul into over the last three years another mini-documentary and lots more. We also wanted to share another piece of music from the game’s gorgeous soundtrack. We want to set the scene for this game, introduce you to characters and themes of the story, get you exclusive previews of the game’s soundtrack and fill you in on some more of the work that’s gone on to create the title.

Make sure to visit regularly or follow us on Twitter or Facebook to get news as it arrives. To celebrate this, we’ve launched this dedicated website for the game, which will feature exclusive content – images, music and writing created just for the site. That’s the premise of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, and we’re delighted to be able to announce the game’s launch date: 11th August 2015.

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