Speculative Agency

Factsheet

Developer:
Speculative Agency
Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Release date:
TBA

Platforms:
Steam
Playstation
Xbox
Nintendo

Website:
http://www.allwillrise.com

Regular Price:

Description

All Will Rise is a narrative deck builder about taking the powerful of the earth to court for destroying the planet, inspired by Ace Attorney and Disco Elysium. A game about justice, hope and people power.

History

All Rise emerged from the legal efforts of Dutch climate activist group Fossielvrij - ‘Fossil Free’ - to get pension fund giant ABP to divest €15 billion from investment in fossil fuels. While preparing to raise support for its court case against ABP in 2021, Dr. Joost Vervoort began to explore the idea of a video game about climate law as a way of generating wider interest in its campaign. Ultimately the ABP case never reached the courtroom, as the company dropped its backing of fossil fuels in late 2021. Still, Fossielvrij stuck with the idea of making a video game inspired by the Ace Attorney series in which players could fight on the side of environmental campaigners, gathering a stacked team of indie and triple-A developers including Horizon Forbidden West producer Niels Monshouwer, 80 Days writer Meghna Jayanth and artists with credits across Thirsty Suitors, League of Legends and Paradise Killer. Joining them was sustainable fashion designer Meghna Nayak, whose use of reused fabric influenced characters’ outfits in the game, as well as a number of environmental researchers.

All Rise emerged from the legal efforts of Dutch climate activist group Fossielvrij - ‘Fossil Free’ - to get pension fund giant ABP to divest €15 billion from investment in fossil fuels. While preparing to raise support for its court case against ABP in 2021, Dr. Joost Vervoort began to explore the idea of a video game about climate law as a way of generating wider interest in its campaign. Ultimately the ABP case never reached the courtroom, as the company dropped its backing of fossil fuels in late 2021. Still, Fossielvrij stuck with the idea of making a video game inspired by the Ace Attorney series in which players could fight on the side of environmental campaigners, gathering a stacked team of indie and triple-A developers including Horizon Forbidden West producer Niels Monshouwer, 80 Days writer Meghna Jayanth and artists with credits across Thirsty Suitors, League of Legends and Paradise Killer. Joining them was sustainable fashion designer Meghna Nayak, whose use of reused fabric influenced characters’ outfits in the game, as well as a number of environmental researchers.

Features

• Unique narrative card gameplay mechanics
• Helps fund real climate cases with the revenue