About

Birth of Papyrus is a platform/puzzle game telling the story of two ghostly girls traveling between two worlds.

Synopsis

You control Jem, a little girl of 11 years, when she wakes up in a dreamlike parallel world.

Exploring the world in search of signs of life, she will be at the heart of unpredictable phenomena: she is regularly teleported into the real world, in places which are familiar.

She will meet her twin Hina, whose presence is quite ghostly, as well as her imaginary friend, taking the form of a shadow with a top hat.

Jem will realize that her own presence is anything but normal. She is alone, transparent to the eyes of all and suffer from this solitude. Then begin a quest for existence, looking for a prince who can cure her illness and for answers about her dark fate...

Characters

Jem
11 year old girl. Wakes up in a parallel world.
Invisible to others, she tries to exist.

Hina

Weak young girl the same age as Jem.
She tries to communicate with her​​.

Imaginary friend
Young boy as a shadow.
Behaves strangely.

Goddess

Female divinity.
Represents in pictorial form in the parallel world.

Key features

• A fairytale as dramatic as poetic where space and time are intertwined, on the border between two worlds.
• A deep metaphorical story, where the player faces many mysteries and is free in his interpretation.
• A gameplay involved in the storytelling and combining exploration phases with platform/puzzle levels.
• A rich and surprising puzzle environment, based on cooperation with an impulsive imaginary friend.
• A visual contrasted, between a dull realistic world and a dreamlike parallel world.
• A musical atmosphere unique of its kind, with a soundtrack entirely played on piano and integrated into the plot.

Gameplay

The game alternates between two phases of gameplay: 

• Phases of adventure in the real world that will allow the player to discover the history by solving situations with objects. 
• Phases of platform/puzzle in the parallel world based on three pillars: 
  • units of energy that can be stored and used to activate mechanisms
  • imaginary friend with whom you must learn to cooperate
  • visual information, playing on the darkness and invisibility