Climb Onboard for the Taxi Journey Kickstarter Campaign!
Taxi Journey is a unique puzzle adventure game that combines charming characters, humor, and mystery with a unique graphical style and gameplay mechanics. Taxi Journey is about Gino, a quiet taxi driver who pedals his taxi around with his passengers hitching a ride on his back, and Zoe, a mysterious young girl that ends up taking Gino on a grand adventure.
Taxi Journey has a couple of interesting tricks for solving puzzles. Gino carries a special fishing rod that he can use to capture objects through their reflections. Zoe also posses an interesting power and she can capture immaterial things like energy and sound. These special skills could provide some interesting puzzle opportunities in Taxi Journey.
Taxi Journey draws inspiration from games like Limbo or Machinarium. The unique art style definitely reflects these types of games. The developer, Lexis Numerique, is striving to provide a unique experience rather than just making a puzzle game where players find themselves simply pushing crates. Lexis Numerique is also trying to invoke emotion through their characters and story hoping that players remember Taxi Journey and it’s characters long after they finish playing the game.
Taxi Journey is currently trying to raise funding for to release on the Wii U and Windows. The funding goal, which is currently set at $130,000, is still within reach with 25 days left on their Kickstarter. Their are also a variety of stretch goals that would help Taxi Journey release on other platforms. Taxi Journey looks like a very promising puzzle game and any fan of the puzzle genre should take a look into Taxi Journey.
[expand title=”Click here for the full press release”]LEXIS NUMERIQUE UNVEILS GAMEPLAY DETAILS FOR ITS UPCOMING CHARMER “TAXI JOURNEY”
Climb Onboard for the NEW Kickstarter Campaign!
Champs-sur-Marne, France – September 12, 2013
Lexis Numérique, one of Europe’s leading independent video game studios, today unveils the very first gameplay video and exclusive new artwork of their upcoming title, Taxi Journey.
Announced in July 2013, the Kickstarter campaign for Taxi Journey begins today with plenty of fanfare. In less than 2 months, Taxi Journey, an original puzzle/adventure game set in a universe that combines charm, humor and mystery, has gained more than 17,000 Facebook fans! Taxi Journey takes inspiration from games such as Limbo and Machinarium with influences from film directors such as Tim Burton and Hayao Miyazaki, combined with a unique universe and original gameplay features.
Gino, a taxi driver, is a man of few words.and he is broke. He can only afford a car with no engine or passenger seat. Therefore, he carries his customers on his back and pedals his car.
As a result of an encounter with Zoe, a mysterious young girl, he ends up journeying to strange, faraway lands; together, they’ll face unique situations and meet amazing characters. Some are friendly, while others hide an evil seed inside… They could be in the villages you’ll pass by, in the overcrowded towns that you’ll visit, and even in the deserts you will cross — there will be some encounters you will never forget…
Djamil Kemal, Marketing & Business Development Director, explains the idea behind Taxi Journey: “We love adventure games, we love platformers and we want to do something truly unique. We believe there is room for a side-scroller that focuses on the story, on the characters and connects to players on emotion level”.
The fundraising page on kickstarter.com is here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/
For Djamil Kemal, the Kickstarter campaign is not only about the money. “We’ve been developing a very strong relationship with the community and we want this to go on during the whole production. In addition to classic rewards (the game itself, artbook, print frames etc.), we want to offer the community a unique chance to give their feedback and have a real impact on the game at every key moment of the production (pre-production, alpha, beta, etc.). For us, Kickstarter has also become a social platform that connects the developers with our fans.
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