Cthulhu’s name invoked in comic Lovecraft spoof Gibbous
Out of the heart of Romania, from deepest Transylvania, comes the announcement of a 2D point-and-click comic adventure about… Cthulhu? Yes, there’s not a vampire in sight in Stuck in Attic’s Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure, a game that “lovingly spoofs” the works of one H. P. Lovecraft. Gibbous will seek to take the writer’s dark subject matter, creatures, and locations, and give them a light-hearted, contemporary twist in the style of classic LucasArts adventure favorites.
Boasting technical features like frame-by-frame animations and hand-painted backgrounds, the developers are taking pains to include unique responses and lines of dialog for every possible combination of inventory items and environment hotspots – whether they produce a viable result or not – thus eliminating bog-standard negative responses when a player action fails to produce results. Besides Lovecraft, the three-person team is citing such disparate influences as Tim Schafer, Alfred Hitchcock, and Karl Pilkington, among others, so the result may be quite an interesting amalgamation.
The game will be available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and possibly mobile platforms further down the road. There is currently no firm release date, as a crowdfunding campaign is expected to be launched at some point in the future, but mid-2016 is the earliest likely target at this point. Fortunately, we’ll get a teaser in the meantime, as a demo could be available as soon as this spring.
To learn more about the Gibbous, you can follow its developments on the developer’s blog. The team is also seeking English-speaking voice talent, and interested applicants can reach them at gibbous.the.game@gmail.com.