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Factsheet

Developer:
Breakfall
Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Release date:
December 10 2012

Platforms:
PC

Website:
breakfall.ca/marvinsmittens

Regular Price:

Description

Marvin's Mittens is a 2D platformer with a focus on exploration and collection. With gorgeous, hand drawn art, Marvin presents a soothing world to explore, free from enemies and danger. Collect magic snowflakes to increase your jump height and race your sled across the landscape to reach new areas before your mother calls you back home. Learn the secrets of snow elf magic and traverse the world beyond Marvin's backyard to solve the mystery of the missing mitten. Immerse yourself in this charming indie title!

The game is distinctly Canadian in its setting and tone. Inspired by our experiences as children of a northern climate, the team tried to capture the feeling of childhood wonder we all felt when outdoors in the winter. There’s a mixture of imagination, exploration, and on some level what it’s really like to be a kid bundled up in a snowsuit, out in a snow covered landscape, with a toboggan to keep you company.

It’s also a bit of an experiment in terms of player engagement. We wanted to create a game without combat, enemies and environmental hazards. We hope we still have plenty to do to keep players wanting more, but the game is very focused on a smaller, simpler set of actions. It’s very serene, meant to be relaxing to play. There are challenges, and you do have a time limit of sorts (you leave your house in the afternoon, see the transition from sunset to evening, and then your mom calls you back home for bed), but it’s not a tense experience.

More whimsical features include Snow Elves who impart the magical ability to leap incredibly high, collection of magic snowflakes which further augment this ability, and of course the mystery of who or what stole your mitten at the beginning of the game.

If you’d like to know more, we’re always happy to talk about our game.

History

Marvin’s Mittens is a videogame that has been developed locally over the last five years. The Breakfall development team started small, but recruited additional members as the project grew. While there is a mixture of experience in the Ottawa game industry, much of the team’s art muscle was recruited from Algonquin College’s Game Dev program, at their end of year expo.

Features

• Beautiful winter landscapes and charming characters
• Carefully placed collectibles encourage exploration and revisiting of levels
• Ever-increasing jump allows access to new parts of the world
• Coast down hills on your sled, find jumps to reach new areas
• Nearly an hour of beautiful original music
• Find shortcuts to venture further before Marvin is called back home by his mom
• Sneak up on wildlife to add animals to Marvin's sketchbook

Marvin's Mittens Credits

Jason Nuyens
Programming, Direction

Mike Keogh
Concept, Direction, Audio

Martin Gauthier
Environmental Art

Harold Sotomayor
Animation, Level Design

Jan Kozlowski
Level Design, Programming

Beth Nuyens
Character Concepts, Interface

Cameron Harding
Programming

Andrew Jobin
Level Design, Art

Jeanie Nagora
Animation

Angele Desjardins
Environmental Art, Animation

Contact

Breakfall Contact - Please direct Steam key requests to https://www.keymailer.co/
contact@breakfall.ca

Twitter
twitter.com/TeamBreakfall

Facebook
facebook.com/breakfallgames

Web
breakfall.ca