Meet Francis, a technical game designer working at Unreliable Narrators since 2021, contributing mainly to the narrative design and level design of Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina). And Laurène, Brand Manager for the game since April 2022.
Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) is in the Top 10 for Fan Choice selection in the Studio Category at GDWC! This means that our game is up in a public vote on the GDWC site here.
Voting starts next Monday, March 20th at 2:00 AM EST. Voting lasts for two weeks and closes on Monday April 3rd at 2:00 AM EST.
The game with the most votes wins, so you are our best chance to win! :) We are counting on you!
Two Falls at the MIX 2023!
Two Falls still has great news for you!
We know that if you follow these announcements, you are one of our biggest supporters. We are counting on you for our next steps!
Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) has been Nominated to Studio Category at GDWC 2022. And we need your help to have a chance! Please give us a like here!
Another amazing news, we will be showcasing a new trailer with more gameplay during the MIX Direct Spring 2023 Showcase! You can follow the event live on Twitch and Youtube on March 17th, starting at 10 am Pacific.
The new trailer will be available on our Youtube page as soon as the event end!
Indie Cup Steam Event is over!
The Unreliable Narrators team would like to thank everyone who attended the Indie Cup Celebration Festival! Two Falls found itself alongside games, each more interesting than the other! It was such a great event!
Welcome to all the new Followers and people who have shown interest by wishlisting the game. This is the best way to support the project.
Finally, we hope that you enjoyed being able to discover some animation secrets, you can watch this video again on our Youtube channel. If you want to go on the event page again: Link here
The next step for us is the Mix (Media Indie Exchange), an online event showcasing indie projects for indie game enthusiasts! We will be waiting for you there from the 17th to the 20th of March.
See you soon!
Exclusive Animation Time lapses live ÑOW!
As you know, the Indie Cup Celebration Festival is going on now and Two Falls’ team is proud to show you some of our Work in Progress material!
Did you ask yourself how we animated our characters? Just check on our steam page and our live will answer all your questions!
The event takes place from Feb 14 to Feb 22!
Welcome to the Indie Cup Celebration festival on Steam
This year, Two Falls was lucky enough to be nominated in three categories at the Indie Cup Canada 2022 : Grand Jury Award, Critics Choice Award and Unreal Engine Award.
To underline this success, the Indie Cup team organizes — for the third consecutive year — the Indie Cup Celebration festival/sale on Steam from Feb 14 to Feb 22. And Two Falls is in!
The event is featuring selected titles from the 2022 editions, and Two Falls was invited!
We will be present in the Coming Soon section with a live showing of exclusive time lapses of our artists in action as well as information on the game.
We therefore expect many of you on the Steam page tomorrow!
It's live now!
It is live! Remember yesterday when we told you we would like to share more images of the game? Well, it's now! The Asylum Direct is showcasing several games from different studios from the Indie Asylum! Two Falls is part of them! You should excpect more gameplay footages and new environments!
What is the Asylum Direct? An online event showcasing the games of the collective. Here are a few things you can expect from the Asylum Direct: • Exclusive never before seen gameplay footage • Brand new game announcements • Playable demos • New Kickstarter campaigns • Game Keys giveaway
We are waiting for you now on Youtube and Twitch! Or later on our Youtube page!
Showcasing Two Falls at the Asylum Direct!
It is with a lot of emotions that we always notice more enthusiasm for Two Falls! You are more and more numerous to follow us and wishlist the game, thank you very much for this support!
Since we know you are impatient, we wondered if you wanted to know more about Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina)? If the answer is YES, don’t miss the Asylum Direct tomorrow, January 31 at 12:30 p.m.
What is the Indie Asylum? The Indie Asylum is a culture-first collective of indie studios that work together and share resources and knowledge in order to make great games. Unreliable Narrators, the studio developing Two Falls is part of it.
What is the Asylum Direct? An online event showcasing the games of the collective. Here are a few things you can expect from the Asylum Direct: • Exclusive never before seen gameplay footage • Brand new game announcements • Playable demos • New Kickstarter campaigns • Game Keys giveaway
What about Two Falls? During this showcase, you will be able to see more new images from the game, new environments and most of all more gameplay! You don't want to miss it!
We are waiting for you on January 31 at 12:30 p.m EST - HERE
Get to know our studio better
For the love of games
First off, let’s get something out of the way: we LOVE video games. More specifically, we love narrative video games. And, from classics like Life is Strange and Detroit: Become Human to indie darlings such as What Remains of Edith Finch and Undertale, we’ve played them all.
After bingeing most of what was available, however, we realised that there aren’t that many story-driven games out there, especially when compared to other genres like shooters and platformers. Moreover, narrative games, or any video games for that matter, rarely feature characters from some groups, for instance indigenous or LGBTQ+ communities. At Unreliable Narrators, we believe these stories need to be told.
There is no truth, only stories...
Humans tell stories. It’s in our nature. Stories we invent, stories we heard from friends, stories that go back generations. But as they are told and retold, they morph and evolve to become something different. In time, narrators inject their own perspectives so much that even historical events become… well, unreliable.
Our team wants to embrace these ambiguities to tell nuanced and rich tales, featuring characters that are generally misrepresented in the history books.
Telling the “other side”
Take our first game, for example. Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) allows you to live the story through two unique perspectives.
There’s Jeanne, the young French woman, entrenched in her religious beliefs, and facing all the unknowns of this “New World”. After the wreckage of the boat on which she crossed the Atlantic, she is left alone with Capitaine, her loyal dog, to fend for her survival. To her, the land is menacing and frightening.
On the other side, Maikan, a young Innu, is trying to grasp the rapid changes his land is facing. To Maikan, nature is home, full of colors and wonders, but the way European settlers treat the land his ancestors have inhabited for thousands of years fills him with horror, as he witnesses the consequences of their actions.
Stories that will make you think
As with Jeanne and Maikan, we want all the characters of our future games to be confronted in their beliefs. They will try to overcome the challenges they face by drawing on their own experiences, learning along the way that reality is often more complex than it seems at first glance.
We want our players to go through the same process as they play our games. Thanks to elaborate plotlines, human-like interactions, mature themes, and sometimes uncomfortable subject matters, we hope to help them see the world through a new lens.
... and these are true stories.
To achieve this goal, we need our characters to be as authentic as possible. For example, Maikan can’t simply be our team’s conception of what an Innu is; he needs to talk and act like one. He needs to be an Innu.
Therefore, we are working very closely with Innu institutions, like the Tshakapesh Institute, and their elders to help validate our script, our scenes, and how our characters react to different situations, to make sure we are representing the Innu culture in the best way we can.
That is the process we want to go through for all our future games. Whether we tell the story of a forgotten Canadian Regiment that helped win World War I, or the brave people that fought for the Haïtian Revolution, we will always work in collaboration with experts and knowledge holders from the respective communities to help give a genuine voice to those who have been silenced for too long.
Thank you!
We know we’ve said it quite a bit, but we’ll never be grateful enough for all the help your support provides. By contributing today to this Patreon, you not only allow us to create games that we all love immensely, you also help give a chance to other creators to tell their own stories.
The Unreliable Narrators team.
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