A lot is happening here at the Turmoil Games. Beta 1 started a week ago,
and we have been receiving precious data on the bugs, performance and
puzzles. Due to publisher company reorganizing, Alpha Polaris will be
published by a newly found company, Just-A-Game.  I had the pleasure of
meeting few of those very talented JAG-guys in Berlin, and we had a blast.
A variety of German sausages and beers were also present, and gave some
precious input to the meeting. :)

Alpha Polaris teaser trailer here. Let us know what you think of it!

There was a tangible feeling of excitement in the room when the test
started. The team had gathered in front of my workstation to play the game
through together for the first time – to see how different elements, puzzles,
conversations and events would all fit in together. For the last week,
I’ve been scrambling to fix the bugs preventing the play-through.

As it happened, I noticed the team’s careful optimism turning into
satisfaction. There were glitches, yes, and missing graphics, absolutely,
but still, we could see the broad approach we had chosen already forming
into an unique gaming experience. We can play the game from start to
finish, and we feel it will convey the thing we first and foremost set out
to express: the atmosphere of being in the distant glacier, in the midst
of traumatic events.

Check out the new screenshots here. All feedback
is welcome now and in the future.

Turmoil Games is excited to announce Alpha Polaris, an upcoming point & click horror adventure game for Windows PC.

In the midst of the snowfields of Greenland lies Alpha Polaris, an American oil research station. High above, the ion storm of the century is gathering, bringing about a strange intermixing of reality and night terrors. It is up to Rune Knudsen, a Norwegian biologist, to take on a desperate struggle against fear and death, and to face the primordial force lurking beyond the veiled sky.

“The heart of the game is its restrained horror setting. It allows us to explore a wide range of human themes in a realistic way: paranoia, isolation, friendship, love and so on. To us, that is the core of a good horror adventure.” says project leader Teemu Vilén.

Main features:
* Mature, character-driven storyline
* Streamlined point & click interface
* Puzzles are an integral part of the story
* 3D characters in beautiful, pre-rendered scenes
* 1280 x 800 widescreen resolution
* Expressive, hand-drawn dialogue portraits
* Atmospheric soundscape including original soundtrack

Screenshots are available for web news publishing at www.turmoilgames.com. For print quality screenshots, please contact info@turmoilgames.com.

www.turmoilgames.com

Platform: Windows PC
Genre: Point & Click Adventure
Developer: Turmoil Games
Available in: mid-2010

Turmoil Games is an independent Finnish game studio founded in 2008 by a diverse group of media professionals. The team strives to combine years of experience in academic game studies, graphic design and dramatic arts in pushing the envelope in gaming and transmedia storytelling.