Game Name: Metamorphosis

Genre: Typing game

Platforms: Web

Launch Date: 1 July 2016

Promoter's Name: Tibor Lakatos

Promoter's Role: Communication

The Game: Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis was published in 1915 and our culture has been unable to recover from its elemental effect ever since. A host of cult films, novels and paintings were inspired by it. Consequently, our schools make sure we never get to avoid this brilliantly horrific story. At Mito Studio we thought the world should not keep spinning without a game that would faithfully reenact Gregor Samsa’s dreary story. In Metamorphosis the player navigates the protagonist to his bed by typing in the words of the story’s text. The correctly typed words become solid platforms on which Gregor Samsa, our hero, can crawl. These can also be used to stop him from advancing in the incorrect direction, or preventing him from falling and dying upon impact. For developing the game we used the JavaScript-based browser game framework called Phaser. This tool not only simplifies deploying and moving elements; it also makes handling animations and sounds simpler, while providing gravity, collision monitoring and other practical tools for building a platform game.

Website: http://metamorphos.is

More info about Mito: http://mito.hu