Update News
Clockwork Release Date
Sydney, Australia - September 27, in the year of our
Lord 2016 - After an exceptionally successful Greenight
campaign and months of finishing touches, Gamesoft is pleased to
announce its breakthrough debut game, Clockwork, will be
available for PC on the Steam Store worldwide from October 11,
2016. The Mac OS release will follow shortly thereafter.
Also being announced, Clockwork will be available for just
US$14.99, with an additional 20% launch week discount to reward
fans for their continued patience and support throughout
Clockwork's development.
Further, Gamesoft want players of many different nationalities
to be able to enjoy the game in their native language.
Clockwork's interface and subtitles will be available in 12
languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Finnish,
Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and
Swedish.
Clockwork is...
...a story about unlikely friends coming together to try to fix
an imperfect world.
...a time-bending puzzle-platforming adventure story.
...set in the great mechanical city of Watchtower, where the
last survivors of a great plague have found shelter within metal
walls and metal bodies.
What if you could go back in time, to before everything changed?
Clockwork is the story of Atto, a lonely mechanical boy in a
great mechanical city. Atto lives amongst the factories that run
day and night, fixing the machines and people that constantly
break down. But then the trusty pocket watch he has owned for
four hundred years suddenly wakes up, introduces itself as
Milli, and gives him a quest. Milli says she can fix the city
once and for all.
Characters
Atto
Atto was only eight years old when he was encased in a
mechanical body to wait out the spread of the great plague. His
parents worked so tirelessly on him that the disease claimed his
mother before she could build a shelter for herself. His father
managed to survive, but as a top engineer and scientist he
barely had time to activate his son before being removed by
officials as an emergency measure. Atto awoke alone with no
memory of either of them. He has now lived nearly four hundred
years as a boy lost in a strange world. His skills as a fixer
are vague memories of the time before, building machinery with
his father.
Milli
Milli is a mechanical masterpiece. When every effort to cure the
plague failed, scientists determined instead to return to a time
before it existed. Their efforts at temporal manipulation were
promising but so much more work was required, and time was
running out. Governments were enforcing ruthless quarantines,
dooming whole populations to die, and evacuations were looming.
Such powerful technology could not be entrusted to anyone whose
motives were unclear. The lead scientist created a single
prototype, Milli. She is wise but innocent and naive, and she is
the only hope for humanity.
Zepto
Zepto is the scientist responsible for building Milli, and
Atto's long lost father. For centuries he has worked at
perfecting his time manipulation technology, waiting until he is
absolutely ready to recall his prototype. Through the years,
governments and the ruling class have become less concerned with
reversing the plague and more unwilling to relinquish their
power, riches and mechanical immortality. But finally Zepto has
made a breakthrough and awakened his prototype. He only hopes
that she will guide his son safely to him.
The Hour
The Hour is a lumbering mechanical monster, the decaying
remnants of a dozen animals encased in an enormous metal body.
It was built by Zepto at the behest of his captors and patrons.
The overlords of the city long ago dismissed Zepto's claims that
he could reverse the plague by reversing time. Instead they
force him to perform new and desperate experiments, inventing
dangerous and powerful mechanisms by which they may remain
immortal. The Hour is the result. Zepto hopes that his creation
will never be released, but prays that if it does he might
retain some control over it.
Setting
The city of Watchtower has stood for more than four hundred
years, the last sign of civilisation in a world destroyed by a
deadly plague. When the disease came and plants and animals
began to die, people retreated behind their high metal walls to
wait. When they could not find a cure, and the water began to
dry up, people built themselves metal bodies that would never
grow sick and die. When the world was dead and poisoned and some
realised that even a cure would not save them, they began to
build, and Watchtower grew taller and taller.
The city of Watchtower is separated vertically into districts:
Poisonville
The lowest and oldest part of the city, beneath the factory
floor. As well as lingering contagions from the time of the
plague, all the waste and pollution of Watchtower flow down
through pipes to discharge here. Only the desperate and
dangerous live in Poisonville.
Grindtown
The industrial heart of the city. The plants and factories and
workshops that power Watchtower are so old and numerous and
complicated that nobody knows what they do anymore. All anybody
in Grindtown knows is, they need enough workers and shifts to
run them around the clock.
Crystal Heights
The scientific and cultural centre of the city, populated by
scientists, inventors and tinkerers who work tirelessly to
produce new machines that improve life in Watchtower. Sadly the
only lives that ever seem to improve are those of the
aristocrats who control the district.
The Spire
The pinnacle of the city, home to the mysterious rulers of
Watchtower. Nobody knows what they do in their sealed chambers
at the tops of the tallest towers, or in their bright airships
that float on tethers. Some say they are working on a cure,
others say something much more secret.
About Clockwork:
Clockwork is a time-bending puzzle-platformer that tells the
story of Atto, a lonely mechanical boy in the great city of
Watchtower. Explore the city, discover its mysterious past,
control time and fight terrifying boss battles. It features over
60 hand-drawn, steampunk-inspired levels.
Game Features:
- 60+ challenging puzzle-platformer levels through multiple
districts of Watchtower
- Unique time-manipulation gameplay mechanic with plenty of
tricky puzzles
- Rich and rewarding storytelling
- Hand-drawn, steampunk-inspired aesthetic and smooth animations
- Fantastically realized characters and the world
- Action & strategy-heavy boss battles
No word on a physical copy of this game
at this time. Families are required to pay for Internet usage
fees to download this game. For more information click
here.