[BLOG] Eurogamer 2013: Tearaway Presentation

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[BLOG] Eurogamer 2013: Tearaway Presentation

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Media Molecule, the studio that brought the world the popular Little Big Planet series today showed off their newest game in a developers session at Eurogamer Expo today.


Tearaway, a game being developed for the Playstation Vita, takes place within a world designed to look and act like paper. The character models are papercraft based and indeed as part of the game you are able to win the patterns for creatures such as the squirrels to download and make for real. Within the gameworld you control a character known as the Messenger (male version called Iota, female called Atoi), who only has one task: simply to deliver a message to you, the actual real-life player who is observing this papery world through the sun (and gets glimpsed at various parts of the game).


However while the gameplay takes part within the papercraft game world, the studio has utilised features of the Vita such as the rear touchpad and the tilt to allow the player (called a 'You' by the gameworld's inhabitants) to interact with the world. Tilting the Vita makes the world tip slightly and the rear touchpad allows the player to stick fingers into the gameworld through a certain type of paper to allow you to knock out enemies (little creatures known as Scraps) or move objects such as blocks and cylinders to allow the player character to progress; all in order to give the feeling the player is 'holding a small world in their hands'. In a way you are very much like a god within this world as you aid the Messenger past puzzles and obstacles and help him defeat Scraps.


There is also scope to customise the player character using a collectable resource scattered about the world called confetti to buy pieces to add to your character or replace existing features such as the eyes, in the form of what was described during the presentation as bits of paper you can stick onto the Messenger. Confetti can also be used to purchase lenses and filters for the camera item that is used in the game to take photos of the world (which can then be shared online) or solve puzzles (certain items in the gameworld are white for example and only regain colour when snapped). Present collectables can be found in the world that give a larger amount of confetti then the amounts scattered along the path.


Tearaway is scheduled for release on November 22nd 2013.

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