Away: The Survival Series is the first game from Breaking Walls.
Away: The Survival Series is the first game from Breaking Walls.
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Breaking Walls raises $1.75 million to make Away, an animal-survival game

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Montreal-based Breaking Walls has raised $1.75 million for Away: The Survival Series, a game where play as an animal trying to survive in the wild.

Away lets you play as a small gliding and walking animal, the sugar glider, and it will help convey the effects of climate change on nature, said Breaking Walls cofounder and chief technology officer Sebastien Nadeau in an interview with GamesBeat. The game looks gorgeous, and the video embedded in this post has been viewed more than half a million times.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.