Making realistic human characters for games isn’t easy. Helsinki-based Tribe Studios has spent the last four years figuring out how to do it with a game engine dubbed Dramagame. In the past couple of weeks, Tribe has released its first title, Velvet Sundown, which is based on the Dramagame technology.
A screenshot from Velvet Sundown.
The free-to-play release is a social multiplayer role-playing game that can be tailored to its audience’s tastes, however wacky or lewd they might be. Velvet Sundown takes a bunch of characters and puts them on a luxury yacht cruising the waters of the fictitious Caribbean state of Balbonia.
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