Somewhere : a first person exploration game.

Somewhere is a collection of stories about the search for a city that does not exist.

A mythical city of storytellers, called Kayamgadh.

You navigate these stories by becoming the other people, and as you shift identities you realise that each person you become is a figment of another character’s imagination and a part of yet another story.
And in this shifting, fragmented construction, Somewhere
is an exploration of how the unchanging truth of Kayamgadh tears the reality of the people who are searching for it. It explores the painful process of disillusionment whilst looking through the lens of it’s most ardent believers.
Kayamgadh does not exist, but there are stories about it. Kayamgadh cannot be reached but people will chart it’s location on their maps. Kayamgadh offers no answer, but people will turn to it for salvation. And nobody can return from Kayamgadh because they were never there.
But people will claim and even believe in it’s indelible existence.
And in doing so they will create a city of their own. A city that would truly be a city of storytellers. An untruth, yes. But no less real to the believer, than the actual city.

The one that does not exist.





























Somewhere is being developed for Windows Mac and Linux.
The game is written in Twine built is Sketchup (make) and compiled in Unity (personal edition)

Somewhere is being built by studio oleomingus are a two person independent game studio, who work on games in between our day jobs.
Somewhere was incubated at a residency program at Khoj a contemporary arts organization based in Delhi

We will post more of our in process images and descriptions with an elaboration of the game's rather intricate lore in our subsequent posts.

You can read more about the game here.

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note : there is a very very old devblog for this game on forums, that I cannot delete. It is from a time when the game was rather ill formed and very different!​

 

Love the tooth brush trees. Very nice style

 

Simply Amazing. The art is inexplicably artistic. Can't find the right word.

 

@Bridin and @NyproTheGeek
Thank you! I am really glad you enjoy the art from our game and the peculiar toothbrush trees!






Some screens from Sketchup, as we compose our environments.

 

looks awesome!!!

 

@8bitCartridge Thank you, glad you like the art for our game!

We just completed a small build called Timruk.
You can find it on our itchio page : http://oleomingus.itch.io/timruk

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Timruk is quite literally a storybook from within the world of Somewhere, that you read across several entwined narrations. Here is a brief history of the text.

'The parable of Timruk and other Stories' is a collection of folklore believed to have originated in Kayamgadh.

These stories were found carved upon temple walls across BhulaDesh. And the imprints from the carvings were first compiled into written form by a traveling poet at the court of Rajah Brimanath at the Kotananku presidency in 1821.

This edition was later transcribed into a large folio, possibly crafted by the fabled calligraphist Maguru. The edition was accompanied by a set of miniature paintings that were scavenged from the various Persian and Mongolian manuscripts collected at the Maharajah's library.

The historian Prof. James P Fielding translated the folio edition while working at Bhutagunj, a British cartographic outpost near the Kotananku Ghats. His translation, was published as a companion to his controversial book, 'The several histories Kayamgadh', after his death in 1903.

Our game is an adaptation of Fielding's book,
a reprinted copy of which is to be found in the archives at the Calcutta state library.

The build was originally crafted for display for an exhibition at Thiruvananthapuram and a modified version of the same will be shown at Level 1 : an exhibition at Khoj (Delhi).

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Our new build Timruk is on Rock Paper Shotgun!
Take a look : http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/12/15/timruk-oleomingus-free/