Publisher Team 17 has picked up the promising indie title Beyond Eyes, which has been doing the rounds on Steam Greenlight and crowd-funding site Indiegogo for a while now.
Developed by Dutch studio Tiger & Squid, Beyond Eyes is an exploration game about a a blind girl called Rae who uses her functioning senses to visualise the world around her.
You control Rae as she searches for her missing cat Nani, guiding her through the world using sense, touch and memory, and avoiding any dangers she encounters on the way. It’s a very pretty thing, with colourful watercolour visuals slowly filling in as Rae moves carefully forward. An interesting and unique concept, too.
The game’s Indiegogo campaign ended in October last year, earning roughly half of its $10,000 goal. Team 17 clearly saw enough promise to pick it up, with the company’s managing director Debbie Bestwick calling Beyond Eyes ”as beautiful as it is touching”.
“I’m super excited to be part of Team17’s Partner Program because it gives me the opportunity to create the best version of Beyond Eyes possible, allowing me complete creative freedom while having Team17’sexperienced support network in place,” said Sherida Halatoe, developer at Tiger & Squid. ”One of the great things about Team17 is that they love and support games in all shapes and sizes,providing all the feedback and help that the individual partners might need.”
Beyond Eyes is set for a 2015 release on PC and consoles.
