The Fold: Ingression, or just "The Fold" for short, was originally intended to be a small project for fun while planning something bigger, but the universe expanded rapidly. The project began its prototype stage with 3 of the devs from Antagonist's Through the Woods but was acquired by Audvyr Studio shortly after and is now being single-handedly developed by one person. Let me introduce myself; I’m Stian Willums from Norway, an artist at heart, who has picked up a thing or two over the years with a steep learning curve.
Story The main plot for the story was relatively clear from the start, but with little to no experience in scriptwriting I had to do a lot of research and planning to connect everything. Many parts of the story are loosely based on strange old Norwegian myths and legends, but in this game not so much focus is put on the stereotypical folklore creatures. I wanted to go for something less common this time and there are many strange pieces to gather from church stories, often in a more Norse-like manner than one may think.
Lore Most stories and legends are taken from my Norwegian home county of Telemark, with traces to the Iron / Norse (viking) and Bronze Age. A lot of the more traditional fairytales also come from this region. Several stave churches here have stories about their construction from around the year 1000 where ‘trolls" in particular were involved in the building process.
The stave churches themselves are rather special ancient buildings, basically built by ‘vikings’ forcibly turned Christian and are the closest, and amazingly well preserved, remains we have from the era. In some of them one can see mockeries of the Christian faith and ancient runic graffiti.
Many churches were supposedly built on top of the old Norse divine ritual sites. It's not known for certain if it was to literally bury the Norse faith or to exploit the power or divine magic of the area. Possibly both, and the locations often truly are quite special as well. Some of the stories also involve very un-Christian, more pagan rituals up to a couple of centuries ago and even still to this day.
Lovecraftian Influence After reading many Lovecraft stories myself, the first thing that comes to mind thinking of them isn’t all the massive insane looking creatures, but rather the mystery and buildup of each of them. There are ‘beings’ and elements in this game with clear inspiration from these typical creatures, but I’m focusing more on making this a story that possibly could be one in that world, but not based on any existing ones. I’m holding back some of the most ‘insane’ stuff until release just to keep the Unknown at bay, but you have a lot to look forward to!
If you would like to find out more, feel free to join my Discord server, I will do my best to answer your questions there; or just post here in the Steam discussions, of course!
The first gameplay trailer is out NOW!
Hello, everyone,
We are most delighted to let you know that the works on The Fold: Ingression are progressing and we can finally show you the first gameplay trailer for the game. Please keep in mind that the game is still far from finished however, and some features are not fully represented in the trailer.
Developed solely by one of the devs of Through the Woods – The Fold: Ingression introduces you to a young Norwegian, Amund Vreim, starting his job as a temp exterminator on assignment to the Eikherad stave church in Telemark, Norway. Amund was looking forward to an easy, relaxing assignment, but he soon realizes that nothing is as it seems and each passing day reveals new areas to explore, eventually leading into uncanny, mystical worlds. Can you keep your wits and become strong enough to protect our world from the ancient evil lurking beyond the veil?
Come discuss your thoughts about the game to our Discord server, we are looking forward to seeing you there.
Audvyr Partners With 1C
Hello everyone!
The development of The Fold has been intense and challenging the past year and updates have been scarce to non-existent up to this point. That will change now with some exciting news; Audvyr Studio has partnered with 1C Entertainment who will be the publisher of The Fold: Ingression! We'll work together to make sure the game reaches its full potential.
There will be more exciting news to come in the upcoming months, so stay tuned!
Welcome to The Fold!
Today the The Fold: Ingression's Steam page went public and Audvyr Studio welcomes anybody join the community to discuss or comment any pre-release content! Creator, Stian Willums, will do his best to answer as well as possible without spoilers.
The game is still very much in development, but more gameplay related screenshots and a gameplay trailer will be uploaded in not too long.
Add the game to your wishlist to better follow the progress and when release is closing in!
