2024-10-24 14:26 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Made
Fellow Fans, Today we rolled-out a new update for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy. The biggest addition this update brings—besides some smaller text-based adjustments—is a new language. You can now play the story of Verne: The Shape of Fantasy in Traditional Chinese as well. Enjoy everyone!
2024-06-27 17:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Made
Fellow enthusiasts of story-driven games, We got something for you! While the Summer Sale officially kicks-off today, we teamed-up with two fantastic adventure games to offer you a deal you can't refuse. Make sure to check it out! It might carry you across the silly season. 🔥 Here's the bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/42893/Summer_of_Stories/
2023-11-21 18:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Made
Dear Super Fans, Imagine, the Steam Awards 2023 kicked-off and Verne is part of it. We would be so honoured if you would support us and choose to vote for Verne: The Shape of Fantasy in the Outstanding Story-Rich Game category! Thank you for your support! - the devs at Gametopia https://store.steampowered.com/app/1424600/Verne_The_Shape_of_Fantasy/
2023-08-24 22:26 UTC · Community Announcements · Gametopia
We have listened and read all your suggestions and have made an update with two aspects of gameplay: Stealth We have adjusted the stealth sections so now the enemies return to their original position after Verne is captured. Final Puzzle We know that many of you found this puzzle a bit frustrating, so we've increased the timer length to make it more accessible. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38958758/e72a529fefa17e2c285d937c4e2c74e7d86c4964.png Additionally, we have fixed some minor bugs and we have implemented some visual improvements, especially with texts that were not properly aligned. We hope you enj
2023-08-14 13:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Made
Fellow adventurers and Verne enthusiasts, we're beyond excited to let you know that Verne: The Shape of Fantasy has just launched. We can't wait to hear your thoughts and feedback about your journey through the game. Hoping that we were able to pay Jules Verne and his fantastic literary milestones as much respect as possible. His imagination is exceptional, and gave everything we got. So, thank you once again for being part of this journey, we hope you'll enjoy playing Verne: The Shape of Fantasy as much as we did developing it. Sincerely yours, the Developers! https://store.steampowered.com/a
2023-08-03 10:11 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Xer0
We're excited to announce that our upcoming dystopian narrative adventure Verne: The Shape of Fantasy is set to release on August 14th, 2023. Unleash your imagination through the fantastical mind of Jules Verne as you explore beautiful, detailed pixel art settings and uncover the most coveted secrets of Atlantis. Watch the new release date announcement trailer of Verne: The Shape of Fantasy now: About Verne: The Shape of Fantasy Verne: The Shape of Fantasy takes place in the year 1888, where a war against the ruthless “Nation” threatens to completely destroy the land of Hemera. You take on the
2023-06-26 15:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Made
Greetings from the Nautilus! first of all, thank you everyone who played our demo and provided valuable feedback. This means a lot to us! We have carefully listened to all your suggestions and we have started to work on them. For starters, we're pleased to confirm that the final release of Verne: The Shape of Fantasy will include mouse support in both the main menu and the pause menu to enhance your gameplay experience. As a result, you will be able to navigate and adjust options comfortably with your mouse as you could with a controller or keyboard, both in the main menu and the in-game pause
2023-06-19 19:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Made
Fellow Jules Verne enthusiasts, we're happy to be part of June's Steam Next Fest starting today. Grab your controllers (or mouse & keyboards) and give the Verne: Shape of Fantasy demo a try. We hope you'll enjoy solving riddles together with Jules. Feel free to leave feedback on the official Steam discussion boards - we're super curious about your thoughts. Yours, the devs at Gametopia https://store.steampowered.com/app/1876610/Verne_The_Shape_of_Fantasy_Demo?snr=1_7_15__13
2023-03-01 18:05 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Xer0
We are once again featured at the amazing DevGAMM! The physical event will take place in Gdańsk, Poland, this year and will give devs and publisher a playground to network. Among other great opportunities, from March 1-2, a conference will be held, gathering game industry professionals for top-notch sessions to show off their projects! For a full program, and all details about this year's DevGAMM in Gdańsk, head to the DevGAMM homepage: https://devgamm.com/gdansk2023/ But this is just the beginning! Besides new projects being showed off, DevGAMM! will also have its very own Steam event! Enjoy
2022-12-06 10:43 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Xer0
The mysteries and stories of Atlantis are waiting to be told! Today, Verne dev Gametopia invites players to uncover the wondrous mysteries of a paradise lost to the sea in Verne: The Shape of Fantasy, coming to Steam and GOG, in 2023. Showcased in a uniquely vibrant pixel-art style, Verne: The Shape of Fantasy is a narrative-driven adventure that draws on the life and works of Jules Verne, one of literature’s most famous science fiction and adventure writers. In celebration of its upcoming release, Gametopia shared a look into the game’s conceptualization via an all-new developer’s commentary.
2022-07-04 11:54 UTC · pressakey.com · Darius Kubisch
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2022-06-30 10:16 UTC · Community Announcements · Assemble_Xer0
"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real." - Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) In 2023, the wondrous journey aboard the Nautilus begins! Together with developer Gametopia, we are happy to tell you 'Don your scuba gear and metal detector because it’s time to unlock the mysteries of Atlantis' once and for all in Verne: The Shape of Fantasy, a pixel art adventure game coming to Steam in 2023. Verne: The Shape of Fantasy shakes up the puzzle platform genre with an adventure based on one of the most epic tales ever told. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38958758/2e3f1344481719e7dd8cf51cdcf612e87eba30f7.png
2022-02-21 18:32 UTC · Community Announcements · Gametopia
https://i.imgur.com/hata2jn.png To celebrate the Steam Next Fest 2022, Gametopia has released an exciting playable demo of Verne: The Shape of Fantasy, a narrative experience set in a beautiful 2D steampunk pixel art universe, in which you become Jules Verne and adventure into the dangers that hide in Hemera, a fantastic parallel world built from his own imagination. As an evolution of the classic point-and-click adventure games, Verne uses a normal WASD controller as well as dynamic conversation options, mixed with old school mechanics like exploration, puzzles, hidden objects, and a thrillin
2021-06-30 17:34 UTC · Community Announcements · Gametopia
Our webcomic comes to an end. You will be able to know the fate of the ancestors, the protectors of the Flame of Hephaestus. The stories we have told in these webcomics will help you to understand Hemera's world, especially the fate of Atlantis, the main theme of Verne: The Shape of Fantasy. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38958758/1317cbd4fe0e1756b5573b1827f00b340519e869.png Expanding the story of Verne: The Shape of Fantasy. We've developed a lot of lore in the game. Perhaps too much... although, really.... there is never too much lore! We have gone deep into the history of the world of Hemera. That's wh
2021-04-27 17:15 UTC · Community Announcements · Gametopia
In “Verne: The Shape of Fantasy” you put yourself in Jules Verne’s shoes to venture into the dangers of Hemera, a fantastic parallel world, built from his own imagination. A narrative pixel art game that drives you, through exploration and puzzle-solving, to the most coveted secret of the mighty Atlantis, in the midst of a dystopian world war. And the discovery of this GREAT SECRET of Atlantis is what this four-issue webcomic series is about... ...Which we proudly present: “Stories of Hemera”, a microseries that plunges into the multi-layered lore of the world in which “Verne” takes place, to
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