OKAM Studio has taken to Kickstarter to finish development on a major transmedia project. Introducing The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizza Boy.
The game is 80 % completed, and they’ve taken to Kickstarter for that much needed final push. The money will go to finish the art, including animations, as well as special event mechanics.
The project is a video game spinoff of The Incredible Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizza Boy, a critically acclaimed comic book published by Dark Horse. The comic is essentially a satire of 80s movies, bringing together werewolves, Nazis, the Vatican, zombies, into a single fantasy gumshoe world filled with a lot of references to those 80s action blockbusters.
You play Eurico, AKA Pizzaboy, the unremarkable member of an offbeat team of supernatural investigators. Joining you are Dog, the boss of the outfit and a lycanthrope, Pazuul, a six thousand year old demon in the body of a seven year old girl, and Gargoyle, the comic relief. The game is set in an alternate reality Lisbon, which has become a seedy city brimming with undesirables, spies, and mysteries to solve.
In keeping with its source material, The Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizza Boy takes inspiration from a major 80s franchise of its own, namely, the Monkey Island games. Developers OKAM plan to make the game into a series of self-contained episodes, more like the Sam & Max reboot than the Telltale Games series.
OKAM needs $ 30,000, and will release the game May 2015 to PC. They plan to release the game on Steam and DRM-free, on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Stretch goals include European localization, Ouya, iOS and Android tablets, and PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Check out the official Kickstarter pitch below and help fund the game here.
