Hello, I’m Ines from Tiny Roar and we’re thrilled to announce that Lou’s Lagoon, our high-flying journey, might be touchdown on PS5 later this year!
At present, I’m excited to share extra particulars concerning the sport and take you behind the scenes to point out a number of the work that has gone into creating the locations you’ll go to, the individuals you’ll meet, and the journey you’ll go on.
A fierce storm and a lacking uncle
Lou’s Lagoon begins with you arriving on Limbo, a tropical archipelago that has been hit by a nasty storm; worse nonetheless, the one that you love Uncle Lou was caught up within the storm and is lacking. You’ll take to the skies in your trusty seaplane to hint Lou’s journey throughout Limbo’s islands and use a intelligent arsenal of devices to rebuild the communities and assist residents again on their toes.
We hope that you just’ll fall in love with the colourful world we’ve created and that you just’ll get swept up in Limbo’s peaceable lifestyle as you hop from island to island, every with a captivating solid of islanders, searching for clues to Lou’s disappearance.
Bringing Limbo to life
After we began engaged on what would develop into the Limbo archipelago, we took loads of inspiration from basic journey titles from the 90s and 00s, with island settings. We felt a tropical archipelago actually match the vibe we wished for the sport – easy-going and a world you may immerse your self in with out stressing out (there’s sufficient of that in actual life!).
As Limbo is an archipelago, we loved the chance to give you concepts for enjoyable thematics throughout the islands. When it got here to designing the person islands, we went by way of loads of concepts together with flying pyramids, an icy octopus island, and a creepy ghost ship however, in the long run, we landed on a set of numerous island themes with our personal distinctive stamp on them that ought to nonetheless really feel acquainted to anybody who had performed journey video games earlier than.
Take Gleam Reef, as an example. We rapidly landed on the thought of an aquatic vibe, that includes big pink corals and we wished its residents to slot in with this theme, which led to the creation of the Vooi. The Vooi are lanky and agile jellyfish-based islanders who we wish to assume lived underwater for a very long time and have not too long ago realized to stay on land. They’re very chilled and like to ‘waft’ however this means they generally settle for their destiny too simply, possibly you may assist them with that?
We took an analogous method when creating the wildlife that may be discovered throughout Limbo, constructing them as combos of actual animals. The Beever is a component bee, half beaver. The Deergoat is… properly, that one’s not exhausting to determine. Every of those creatures carry totally different sources that you just’ll want to gather and craft with as you assist islanders and rebuild their communities, and we’ve labored exhausting to present gamers masses to find at any time when they land on an island for the primary time.
Prepared for takeoff?
As I discussed earlier, you’ll journey from island to island in your seaplane and we’ve put loads of effort into making flying really feel satisfying and enjoyable, whether or not you’re an skilled pilot or simply discovering the enjoyable of flying for the primary time.
You’ll see ring challenges all through the skies above Limbo. We hope that these challenges supply a enjoyable technique to become familiar with piloting your seaplane. Why not try to beat your private finest as you get extra assured behind the controls?
When you contact down, you’ll have to get to work on clearing up particles, gathering sources and crafting objects to assist restore the islands to their vibrant, pre-storm state (and even higher?). Your key software – and considered one of my favorite instruments within the sport – that will help you do this is the Swirler 2000, which might seize storm particles and free sources throughout the islands. For anybody who has performed Slime Rancher, it’ll really feel instantly acquainted as you’re capable of simply acquire supplies on the transfer.
The entire Tiny Roar workforce are extremely excited to be bringing Lou’s Lagoon to PS5. Keep tuned for extra updates as we get nearer to launch later this year and be sure you comply with Lou’s Lagoon on social media. We will’t await PS5 gamers to discover Limbo and observe down Uncle Lou!