Far Cry 3 creators take a 180-degree turn with Child of Light … a princess game?

The creative duo that made one of the most violent and disturbing first-person shooter games of 2012 — Far Cry 3 — has taken a big turn into a very different kind of game about a princess. Child of Light is a multiplatform game with a deep story but a decidedly more cartoonish touch than the ultrarealistic jungle combat of the Far Cry universe.

Child of Light is the first original game from the creators: Patrick Plourde, the creative director, and Jeffrey Yohalem (pictured), the lead writer. It is about a princess named Aurora, the daughter of a duke in Austria, in the year 1895. She wakes up in a lost continent of Lemuria, where many of the people have been turned into ravens. The sun, the moon, and the stars have all been stolen by the Black Queen.  It’s an epic journey of growth that will change all of the characters involved.