IGM Forum Finds: The Land of Eyas
The newest game from Happy Square Productions is titled The Land of Eyas. It’s a physics-based puzzle platformer where the player takes on the role of a child, named Eyas. Wearing his adorable cat pajamas, he’s found himself lost in a world where he must navigate two opposing gravities. In order to return Home, he must navigate through these gravities and interact with various objects along the way to solve numerous puzzles. He is guided by tree wisps who direct him to find M.O.T.H.E.R, and eventually encounters a mysterious girl named Abrahm.
In The Land of Eyas, the only set rule is that “you must interact with objects that lie within several gravitational zones. This forces you to look at your surroundings from multiple perspectives and to devise complex strategies that get you from point A to point B,” according to the Kickstarter page. The player will interact with blocks that can be built into various structures to help reach high areas and even avoid hazards.
The player can help out creatures and spirits that Eyas meets along the way. Additionally, there are golden artifacts known as “annuli” that reveal secrets and expand the world, but will these really help bring Eyas to his Home? With difficult puzzles and plenty of challenges waiting ahead, players can spend hours bringing Eyas — and his cute pajamas — safely back Home.
The Land of Eyas is currently seeking funding via Kickstarter. If they reach their $10,000 USD goal, there are plenty of extra stretch goals available, including professional voice-overs for the character of Abrahm, new costumes for Eyas, and, at $50,000, a port of the game to the Nintendo 3DS. Backers of the Kickstarter can also earn rewards ranging from an early copy of the game at $8.00, all the way up to creating your own stage, and various other extras, at the $400 level.
The Land of Eyas will be available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as well as the Xbox Live Arcade. Happy Square Productions is also currently running a Steam Greenlight campaign for the game. For anyone who is interested in the soundtrack to the game, it’s available on SoundCloud by Stephen Hoskins, who is also the lead developer on the project.
