Nova-Box has announced that Echoes is now available for iPhone, iPad and iPod for $2.99. Players can head over to the App Store to pick up the game and experience its comic book style adventure. The game features a rich universe where you can make your own adventure by uncovering clues and interrogating suspects. Read on to learn more.
From the Press Release
Echoes is a new, film noir, comic book style adventure game for iPhone, iPad, and iPod developed by Nova-Box. Echoes is similar to an interactive adventure comic book, but with multiple endings depending upon the choices you make during the game.
Episode 1: Greanhearth
You are Ricky Fox, a brilliant detective from NYPD. Your best friend, Arthur Petrovski, a renowned psychiatrist, just passed away in strange circumstances and you travel there to make your own investigation. Freshly arrived in Greenhearth, a small rural town in Oregon, you meet a strange bunch of weird characters, and you realise that the town is full of secrets. Will you find the murderer?
The Writer - Frédéric Lignac
Frédéric Lignac is long time veteran in role playing and computer gaming. He wrote the scenario, the dialogs and designed the player's adventure for Echoes, taking from vast knowledge in fantasy, science fiction and horror themes. Game designer by trade, he just wrote his first novel: Onakron.
The Musician - Charles H. Martin
Charles H. Martin is a pianist and music composer. He self-published an instrumental album in 2010 with his band, Chords Theory. For Echoes, he crafted an ambient sonic soundscape with only a grand piano, prepared with everyday objects to capture the sound effects.
About Nova-Box
Nova-box is French company founded in 2007, established in Bordeaux. The founding partners are experts in Computer Sciences and postgraduates in Cognitive Sciences research. The company is recognized by the French government as a research lab, with the label Jeune Entreprise Innovante (young innovating company) and an accreditation from the Ministère de la Recherche et des Sciences (Ministry of Research and Sciences). These fields of expertise, and a permanent technological watch, makes Nova-box a cutting-edge company for projects concerning user experience design and artificial intelligence.
From the Press Release
Echoes is a new, film noir, comic book style adventure game for iPhone, iPad, and iPod developed by Nova-Box. Echoes is similar to an interactive adventure comic book, but with multiple endings depending upon the choices you make during the game.
- Discover a rich and dark universe inspired by film noir movies and comic books, with gorgeous graphics and an incredible music fully recorded on an acoustic piano.
- Make your own adventure, interrogate the persons of interest and find clues in detailed interactive research scenes.
- Ask the right questions and manipulate the suspects to untangle the truth from the lies during the interrogation sequences.
- A brand new adventure each time: the clues, the behavior of the characters and the story possibilities are different each time you start a new game.
Episode 1: Greanhearth
You are Ricky Fox, a brilliant detective from NYPD. Your best friend, Arthur Petrovski, a renowned psychiatrist, just passed away in strange circumstances and you travel there to make your own investigation. Freshly arrived in Greenhearth, a small rural town in Oregon, you meet a strange bunch of weird characters, and you realise that the town is full of secrets. Will you find the murderer?
The Writer - Frédéric Lignac
Frédéric Lignac is long time veteran in role playing and computer gaming. He wrote the scenario, the dialogs and designed the player's adventure for Echoes, taking from vast knowledge in fantasy, science fiction and horror themes. Game designer by trade, he just wrote his first novel: Onakron.
The Musician - Charles H. Martin
Charles H. Martin is a pianist and music composer. He self-published an instrumental album in 2010 with his band, Chords Theory. For Echoes, he crafted an ambient sonic soundscape with only a grand piano, prepared with everyday objects to capture the sound effects.
About Nova-Box
Nova-box is French company founded in 2007, established in Bordeaux. The founding partners are experts in Computer Sciences and postgraduates in Cognitive Sciences research. The company is recognized by the French government as a research lab, with the label Jeune Entreprise Innovante (young innovating company) and an accreditation from the Ministère de la Recherche et des Sciences (Ministry of Research and Sciences). These fields of expertise, and a permanent technological watch, makes Nova-box a cutting-edge company for projects concerning user experience design and artificial intelligence.
