Blackwell Unbound - WIN A FREE COPY

[Dave Gilbert]

At long last, we can finally announce our next project:

Coming in July/August 2007, from Wadjet Eye Games!

The year is 1971.  The sound of a lone, ethereal saxophone drifts over the Roosevelt Island promenade, while a series of accidents plague a midtown construction site.  The citizens of Manhattan take no notice of these events, let alone think they are connected.

Embittered medium Lauren Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone are the only ones who believe that there is anything strange going on, and they are the only ones who can stop an enigmatic killer from striking again… 

Screenshots:

Yet another confused, lost spirit.  What's a medium to do?


Lauren's reputation procedes her.


Lauren takes a smoking break.


Trolling the local businesses for information.


Once more, looking at photographs will provide clues.


Team:
Writer/designer/coder: Dave Gilbert
Sprites/animation/Background: Erin Robinson (The Ivy)
Music: Thomas Regin
Poster art: Dan Lee

Confirmed voice cast:
Dani Marco
Abe Goldfarb
Francisco Gonzalez
Chen-Young Hsu
Mark Smythe


Release date:
July/August 2007

Price:
$9.99

For more details on the game (like character info, concept sketches, and other goodies),  please mosey over to the Wadjet Eye Games website.

[Privateer Puddin']

Excellent, been looking forward to news on future games since finishing The Blackwell Legacy.

[Nikolas]

Brilliant news!

Looking good, Dave, looking good. Not to start counting to august... 1st if June today...

[Ghost]

Aw. I just love that poster. The one from BWL1 still adorns my desktop, but this one... quality stuff. The game screenshots look pretty promising, too- I'm def'nitly looking forward to this one, and I'm quite curious how the new sprites will look in action. I have to admit that I liked the first ones, well... better? But no judging before seeing them in motion.

[Darth Mandarb]

Fantastic!

Wadjet Eye strikes again!  Keep up the great work my good sir!

[Erenan]

Yay! Now we have two games called Unbound to look forward to.

[Hammerite]

do you even NEED a real job anymore? 

[Dave Gilbert]

Hammerine: This is my real job.  For now, anyway.

Erenan: Another unbound?  Eep.  Me so sorry.

[Ubel]

Another unbound?  Eep.  Me so sorry.

Come on Dave, it's LimpingFish's game! Surely you should have known!

Anyway, this is still looking excellent!

* Pablo pats Dave on the head

[big brother]

Now it's a race to see who can finish their game first and keep the title!

[Hammerite]

Hammerine: This is my real job.  For now, anyway.

Kudos to you!
A true AGS entrepeneur!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Wheeeeeeeeeeee!

I say, is the main character focus shift (from Rosa to Lauren) due to you not working with Sandy at the mo? Or did I get it the wrong way around, and you're not working with her because Rosa hasn't been born yet?

Do I detect a tiny graphical change from Legacy? Same style, but are they the same artists? I should start reading the credits sometimes, then I wouldn't ask these questions...

Also: WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[LimpingFish]

Now it's a race to see who can finish their game first and keep the title!

Uh-oh.

Of course if Dave is willing to buy me off, I'll be only too happy to drop out of the race.

Edit: Oh, and great looking work, Dave.

[Sam.]

If this game proves anything, it is that smoking is cool

*lights up


Really looking good dave, a nice tideover until the next one, although this looks to be much mroe than the tideover which you describe it as!

[Peder 🚀]

Looking great Dave .

Whats up with the team change? :-/
Old team members to busy?
Or do you just want to try something new? .

[Dave Gilbert]

Whats up with the team change? :-/
Old team members to busy?
Or do you just want to try something new? .

There's a "real" sequel in production, called Blackwell Convergence, but since it won't be released for a while I thought it would be nice to release something to tide people over.  I had the plot for Unbound designed awhile ago, so I decided to work on that too.

It's slightly smaller and simpler in style in order to facilitate it being released sooner (albeit with a slight change in price to reflect that).  I started another team (i.e. Ivy) working on this while the main team works on the other game.

Rui: Yes, Sande won't be voice acting in this game because Rosa isn't in it.  

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Ivy's skills are really progressing and it shows, particularly with the backgrounds.  I also dig the title screen.  Good luck with this!

[Vince Twelve]

Well done Dave and Ivy!!!  It's looking really nice!  Oh, and Dan Lee: woo!

[Peder 🚀]

There's a "real" sequel in production, called Blackwell Convergence, but since it won't be released for a while I thought it would be nice to release something to tide people over.  I had the plot for Unbound designed awhile ago, so I decided to work on that too.

It's slightly smaller and simpler in style in order to facilitate it being released sooner (albeit with a slight change in price to reflect that).  I started another team (i.e. Ivy) working on this while the main team works on the other game.

Ok! .

That explains it .
It might be simpler but its still pretty awesome .

Good luck with both games!
Looking forward to their releases .

[Nacho]

Looking very good, Dave. Knowing your "savoir faire", this game is going to be really interesting.

About Ivy' s work... Wow! I saw previous work of her, and I knew it was good. But this is very very good. Congrats for your work.