Envelope is an upcoming horror title, and will be our first real commercial release. The game starts off like one might expect from these types of retro horror games. You start at a gas station, and you have to complete your night shift. In the middle of your tasks, you meet someone who gives you something that gives the game a very dark twist. This twist puts you in the next area of the game, which is a completely open area where you can go and do whatever you please. Here you meet characters that can help you along on your mission, or you can just search for useful items. This is where the immersive sim comes in. Which characters you help, how you help them, that's all up to you. You can even kill them if you feel like it.
A lot of the game is actually based on real life experiences of me and my game dev partner Numme. We both met while working at a grocery store, which is now seven years ago. This is why there's a focus on grocery stores in the game. It ties together how we met and became business partners. The characters in the game are also to a big degree inspired by strange people we have come across the last few years. I can't say for sure when we got this game idea, but we have talked about it for quite some time but never had the chance to work on it like we do now. Oh, and most of the environment is based on Norwegian nature.
