Rewind 2096: The Empyreum War [Dramedy][Dystopian][Visual Novel][Science Fiction][Original Soundtrack]
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 4:43 pm
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Above: A sample of storyboard artwork from Rewind: The Empyreum War.
The day after tomorrow, or possibly sometime next week. The Neutron Wars have been and gone, taking with them most of the population of Earth. Those who survive live out their lives under an artificial sky, trapped within giant biodomes and bathed in the purple aura of a protective field. Every word, every thought is monitored by The Company. Dissent is punishable by death, which is kind of ironic, since death is exactly what most people pray for.
Fuel reserves are exhausted. What little power The Company provides comes from offworld, shipped in from the vast Empyreum mines of LV13. But the mines are at the center of an endless war, a meaningless conflict from which no-one returns alive. It is a war we cannot possibly win, and yet a war we must not lose.
When Kantrell Adams is forcibly conscripted to the mines, his family faces the prospect of losing everything - until mysterious startup Rewind Inc. offers a solution. If he backs up his mind to their systems, his wife can have it restored into a clone when he dies. The same husband in a younger body, crafted to her own specifications. Everybody wins.
But those at the top have their eyes on Rewind Inc. - and they may have an entirely different fate mapped out for Kantrell...
Watch this space for more screenshots and development information as I progress. Please feel free to ask questions - this is a big project, being based on my own trilogy of scriptbooks, each of which contains the scripts for 2x2 hour episodes for a total of 12 hours of script. Thanks to Daz Studio and RenPy, this is the first time I've been able to turn the scripts into a visual form, and the end result will contain a complete original soundtrack by myself as well as spoken dialogue.
Above: A sample of storyboard artwork from Rewind: The Empyreum War.
The day after tomorrow, or possibly sometime next week. The Neutron Wars have been and gone, taking with them most of the population of Earth. Those who survive live out their lives under an artificial sky, trapped within giant biodomes and bathed in the purple aura of a protective field. Every word, every thought is monitored by The Company. Dissent is punishable by death, which is kind of ironic, since death is exactly what most people pray for.
Fuel reserves are exhausted. What little power The Company provides comes from offworld, shipped in from the vast Empyreum mines of LV13. But the mines are at the center of an endless war, a meaningless conflict from which no-one returns alive. It is a war we cannot possibly win, and yet a war we must not lose.
When Kantrell Adams is forcibly conscripted to the mines, his family faces the prospect of losing everything - until mysterious startup Rewind Inc. offers a solution. If he backs up his mind to their systems, his wife can have it restored into a clone when he dies. The same husband in a younger body, crafted to her own specifications. Everybody wins.
But those at the top have their eyes on Rewind Inc. - and they may have an entirely different fate mapped out for Kantrell...
Watch this space for more screenshots and development information as I progress. Please feel free to ask questions - this is a big project, being based on my own trilogy of scriptbooks, each of which contains the scripts for 2x2 hour episodes for a total of 12 hours of script. Thanks to Daz Studio and RenPy, this is the first time I've been able to turn the scripts into a visual form, and the end result will contain a complete original soundtrack by myself as well as spoken dialogue.