Hermit House
Project Name: A Home Below
Player Type: Single player
Target Platform: Console or handheld consoles
Twitter: @hermithouseltd
Local Hub: Tranzfuser Virtual Hub
We are Hermit House, a close-knit team making short, beautiful, hopeful games with a focus on nature. Ivan is our team lead and programmer, with a background in film production. Blythe is our artist, a practicing sculptor and fine artist. Jess is our game designer and producer, a writer and researcher. We want to make games that are works of art – driven by visual storytelling and environmental research – inspiring wonder and curiosity about the natural world. We have released 2 previous games together and were recently selected for the Curios Indie Game Showcase exhibited at WASDxIGN.
Tranzfuser will enable us to create a short experimental demo (one small part of the full game) that expresses our unique voice and interests as a studio.
About the project
Feel what it’s like to be a hermit crab in the vastness of an underwater house that has been reclaimed by the sea. Climb, roll, and float, using the ecosystem around you to find your way from room to room while learning about the house’s history and its new sea-creature inhabitants. Make friends, evade predators, and seek shells to change size and reach new places.
Think Journey, but underwater. A Home Below is a game for cozy gamers waiting for their next short, uplifting, beautiful gaming experience. Discover a stunning new setting and heartwarming storyline with gameplay inspired by Thatgamecompany games, but with new mechanics and ideas, enriched by a focus on nature. A Home Below will ignite your sense of wonder and appreciation for the marvels of sea-life and the possibilities of imagined futures, bringing to life real-world ecosystem relationships and research through a moving, cinematic gaming experience
Think Journey, but underwater. A Home Below is a game for cozy gamers waiting for their next short, uplifting, beautiful gaming experience. Discover a stunning new setting and heartwarming storyline with gameplay inspired by Thatgamecompany games, but with new mechanics and ideas, enriched by a focus on nature. A Home Below will ignite your sense of wonder and appreciation for the marvels of sea-life and the possibilities of imagined futures, bringing to life real-world ecosystem relationships and research through a moving, cinematic gaming experience
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We applied to Tranzfuser to kickstart our studio. After self-publishing two games and getting selected for an indie showcase, we were ready to approach the industry.Tranzfuser provides time, support, and exposure. The time to build up momentum and create something exciting that can grow. The guidance of a facilitator to learn the language of business and present ourselves as a company, and exposure to professional interviews. This creates the perfect bridge to establishing trust with industry bodies to secure long-term funding.
Project Lead