Factsheet

Developer:
Speculative Agency
Based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Release date:
TBA

Platforms:
Wishlist on Steam
Playstation
Xbox
Nintendo

Website:
http://www.allwillrise.com

Regular Price:

USDTBA
EURTBA

Description

Play as Kuyili and manage her quarreling team of visionaries, cynics and dreamers in a city alive with possibilities. Welcome to Muziris, in a world that could be ours. A city that bursts with energy, under pressure from all sides by corporate and political interests. Mix with capitalist overlords and construction workers, ecoterrorists and godmen, conspiracy theorists and hacker seeresses. Follow leads and find allies. Build a deck of evidence and strategies. Learn your opponents’ strengths and weaknesses, and play your cards to win people over. Shape Kuyili with your choices: will she be a brash egotist always ready for a challenge? Open-hearted, hedonistic…a little neurotic? A detail-oriented warrior-monk? Make your case, and win the battle for the future. It’s in your hands. The river burns. The city awakes. All Will Rise.

History

Project Origin

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
  • Highly experienced and engaged development team
  • Game for the current cultural moment
  • Helps fund real climate cases with the revenue

Videos

All Will Rise - Wishlist us on Kickstarter YouTube

Images

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Selected Articles

  • "Well here's something you don't see every day. "
    - Matt Wales, Eurogamer
  • "This is clearly a game with something to say, which is a little bit unusual in the realm of videogames.."
    - Andy Chalk, PC Gamer
  • "..shown off during the Wholesome Direct, where it stood out among the many cutesy tranquility sims on account of there being, wow, actual conflict driving a story."
    - Brendan Caldwell, Rock Paper Shotgun
  • "The world doesn’t need another deck-building strategy game – unless it’s also a courtroom drama in which you’re a team of environmentalists suing a corrupt billionaire for poisoning a river."
    - Keith Stuart, The Guardian
  • "It’s a strikingly bold concept for a game ... it is certainly one we’ll be watching."
    - Nate and Julie, Video Games Are Good
  • "This is an original, thematically daring game that you really should keep an eye on."
    - Sjaak Stechman, IGN
  • "If I had to boil this list down to just one game to keep an eye on out of Gamescom, it would be All Will Rise. "
    - Laura Kate Dale, Paste Magazine
  • "GPR: World Warrior with Dr. Joost Vervoort"
    - Heather Anne Campbell, Get Played Podcast
  • "All Rise channels Ace Attorney, Disco Elysium and Slay the Spire in a courtroom card battle to save the planet"
    - Matt Jarvis, Rock Paper Shotgun
  • "Podquisition 504: The Coldest Open"
    - Laura Kate Dale, Podquisition (Jimquisition podcast)
  • "All Will Rise — an inappropriately joyous game about fighting for the planet"
    - Joost Vervoort, All Will Rise (Anticiplay) Dev Blog

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About Speculative Agency

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At Speculative Agency we want to help people think about their role in making a positive change in the world. To let people explore new and speculative forms of agency in their lives and the future of our planet. Through Games. We are starting a movement of developers and scientists to create games that show a personal path to positive transformative societal change. At Speculative Agency we want to help people think about their role in making a positive change in the world. To let people take agency of their lives and the future of our planet.

More information
More information on Speculative Agency, our logo & relevant media are available here.

All Will Rise Credits

Niels Monshouwer
Executive Producer

Joost Vervoort
Science and Impact Director

Meghna Jayanth
Narrative Director

Hugo Bille
Design Director and Developer

Marocha Arredondo
Art Director and UI

Yuvraj Jha
Lead Environment and Character Artist

Enora Mercier
Environment Artist

Ramsey Kharroubi
Composer

Neha Patel
Audio Designer

Chanté Goodman
Social Media and Community Manager

Paul van Barneveld
Marketing designer

Contact

Inquiries
info@speculativeagency.com

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