What is it?

Firebird is a single-player narrative game that takes us on a journey to discover the Siberian steppes and Slavic myths and legends. Playing as Mariska, you embark on a grand journey north to deliver a cargo of food and save a village.

In its storytelling, the game draws inspiration from choose-your-own-adventure books. In an interactive story, players must make the right choices to lead Mariska and her truck to their destination. The title also includes a resource management aspect, with players potentially running out of gas, money, or experiencing breakdowns during the journey.

The development lasted two years, carried out by a small team of ten people. For this project, we worked from a manuscript already written in French by FibreTigre.

The title was nominated for the Pégase Award for Best Accessibility in 2024.

My tasks on this project

• Script Doctoring based on FibreTigre's script and reworking of narrative elements that were not effective in playtests.
• Writing of several additional scenes, especially dialogue exchanges between Mariska and her passengers.
  • To read an exctract
• Design and documentation of design features (resource system, map functionality, types of choices, photo mode, etc).
• Staging the entire game through integration and placement of visual assets.
• Organizing playtest sessions throughout development: recruitment, observations, and report production.
• Designing accessibility features. Notably, the game is fully playable for blind individuals, thanks to screen reader support and textual descriptions of all visual elements.

To find out more…

Steam page

Firebird

Website

Firebird

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