Redemption is an independent, point & click adventure game in a first person perspective, created, developed and produced by Loris Stavrinides in 2005 as part of his Postgraduate degree course in Design for Interactive Media in the Lansdown Centre of Electronic Arts in the Middlesex University, UK. Aim of the project was to create an adventure experience purely made in Adobe Flash as a way for extending skills in interactive design, ActionScript programming and 3D design. Throughout the development progress Redemption became a much more ambitious project than what was met to be, and as a result was the development of a fully playable demo of an adventure game with fully designed environments, characters and an extensive storyline and gameplay.

Redemption has a surreal approach to traditional Adventure Games in first perspective, and that was done in purpose in order to try and deliver a different engaging experience. In contrast with usual Adventure Games the player doesn't discover the plot and game objectives through progressing within the game. In this case the main plot and objectives can be learned from the first part of the gameplay and after that is a ghost hunt based on puzzle solving.

The extensive storyline can be learned within the game in great detail, however, here is a brief overview:

A French painter called Damien Vasser has discovered a secret power for making all his dreams come true by gaining an incredible talent that offered him a lot of success. But unfortunately for him, his corruption for wealth and power caused this power to release his sins in real form through his painting work. 7 Women, representing the 7 deadly sins where released, destroying Damien's life and corrupting the world around them. The only solution to stop this was the entrapment of himself and all 7 women on a dimension within his paintings, in his corrupted house and appearing as ghosts. Damien now asks for a chance of Redemption to be released from his prison by the visitor who will need to find and capture all 7 women and destroy them.

The game is about this surreal quest for releasing Damien Vasser from his sins. Search, Catch and Destroy the 7 Sins.

The entire project was fully created and developed by Loris Stavrinides, with some help and support by friends and tutors. The game world was created in 3D Studio Max 7 and rendered with the VRay rendering engine. Character designs where done in Poser 6 and post-production was done with Photoshop CS2. The entire game was developed in Flash MX 2004 pro with ActionScript2.

The objective of this game was to portrait a surreal experience to the user, and so each scene was rendered through dramatic angles to enhance the experience, the surrealism and the fact that the player is observing this world from a different level than the usual first-person perspective. Great attention was also given to the textures used for every scene along with the light and shadow contrast for creating a corrupted, mysterious and deep environment. Sound FX and background ambience where also added for each scene to enhance the experience.

Starting from top left: Damien Vasser, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Vanity.

In September 2005 the game was exhibit at the React degree show in London with a great response from visitors who tried and tested the game. A lot of interest was raised for the full completion of the project. Some of the comments from the people who signed the visitors book where as follows:

“Very fascinating and intriguing creation, the combination of amazing graphics, music and environments make for a potentially superb dark and mysterious adventure game. Great work on the drawings!!! The level of difficulty is quite over the top for the average gamer however it did keep me frustrated for 1 hour until I solved it!” - Alex Spyrou
“A wonderful work and very imaginative. Congratulations!!!” - unknown visitor
“Your game is difficult & requires times, but it does have good atmosphere. well done.” - Ally Ellison
“Brilliant!! Good graphics and structure” - Sakis
“Very slick - I like it” - unknown visitor
“I have been redeemed!!! Thank-you” - unknown visitor
“Sick (in a good way)” - unknown visitor

At the moment Redemption still remains as a demo with no future plans for its final completion, due to limited development time and funding. However, if you are interested to discuss any possibilities for investing in the full development of the project, or if you have any other commercial propositions then feel free to email Loris at: loris[at]lorisarts.com.

You may download the fully playable demo from here:
Download Full Demo [ 253 MB ]

Enjoy the game and please feel free to forward any feedback, suggestions or comments about the project to: loris[at]lorisarts.com.