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Explore the limits of sight and empathy in Beyond Eyes

Beyond Eyes finally has a firm release window and its first comprehensive trailer after being showcased as part of Miscrosoft’s E3 press event. The brain child of Sherida Halatoe under her one-woman studio, tiger & squid, Beyond Eyes follows a young girl on her journey to find her lost cat in a world she can’t see. It’s to be published by Team17, and is slated to launch sometime this summer, arriving first on Xbox One followed by a PC version later in the year. As previously reported, Halatoe’s game makes use of an impressionistic style that allows the world of…
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Beyond Eyes teases an impressionist world painted only by sound and touch

The French impressionist painter Oscar-Claude Monet, famous for exploring light and his perception of it, once remarked, “I wish I had been born blind and then suddenly gained my sight so that I could begin to paint without knowing what the objects were that I could see before me.” In effect, he wished he could look upon the landscapes he painted as if for the first time, free from any associations or prejudices. helping players to un-see the world around them.  Beyond Eyes tries to liberate players in just this way, but for the opposite purpose. Developed by Sherida Halatoe through her…
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Relish the look of Beyond Eyes’ watercolor visions

One-woman studio tiger & squid’s Beyond eyes reached nearly half of its Indiegogo goal last October. Since then it’s gone dark, only resurfacing this week to the news that publisher Team 17 (best known for the Worms series, but they’ve been diversifying as of late) has picked up the game for a 2015 release. The game follows a young girl named Rae who has to overcome her trauma-inflicted agoraphobia to search for her “gorgeous full-figured” feline friend Nani, which sounds like the start of a Haruki Murakami novel. Interestingly, the game appears to feature a sort of symbiotic relationship between Rae and…