The Beard in the Mirror being groomed for early 2014 release

Written by Jack Allin — July 20, 2013 at 11:12

There's always a new adventure waiting outside your front door, but for the star of the upcoming indie title The Beard in the Mirror, there's an even more fantastical adventure lurking right outside his bedroom door.

The Beard in the Mirror tells the tale of a typical 22-year-old who "doesn't know who he is, where he's going, or how he fits into his world." He also doesn't think he's ever traveled to worlds beyond his own, but the "beautiful girl who wakes him up in the middle of one stormy night seems to think otherwise... Inside his bedroom is the comfort and stability he's known all his life, but outside, there's an all-new fantasy world filled with magic, danger, romance—and the promise of adventure."

Co-created by Paul Franzen, designer of the Xbox indie exclusive Life in the Dorms (and self-avowed LucasArts fanboy), and his wife Lizo (a proud Sierra fangirl), The Beard in the Mirror has been in production for several years now, beginning life as a text adventure before turning into a full-blown graphic adventure complete with "challenging puzzles with wacky solutions, dialogue trees, dangerous mishaps (and even death!), and a story about how to find oneself once the world's finally figured out you're an adult."

As a small indie team, the developers are reluctant to predict when The Beard in the Mirror will be released, but with any luck they say we'll be seeing the game on PC as soon as late this year, but more likely early in 2014.