We just released the demo for our upcoming point and click adventure game Panthalassa!

It's been a long journey to get here. We started writing the text adventure version of the game back in 2022, back then our goal for the game was a lot more modest (really it was supposed to be as big in length and scope as the demo that we just released) however, as we started properly working on it, and more and more ideas came to us we realized that this game had a much bigger potential than what we initially thought, so, we made the very difficult decision to increase the game's scope and expand it's story in order to offer a more complete and meaningful experience.

Panthalassa has been a labor of love, we have been inspired by countless other point and click games from the 90s and early 2000s, such as Garage: Bad dream adventure, The Silver case and I Have no mouth and I must scream. as well as sci-fi shows like star trek and books like Rain Like Hammers and TechGnosis.

We at Meia Calça love making games, Panthalassa came from the need to make something original and ours, it was that need of self expression that led us into trying to make something different that resonated with us. 

Sharing games in this day and age isn't so easy. It has never been this accessible for someone to pick up a game engine and publish whatever they want, Thousands of games are released on steam and Itch every year, there is a true saturation of games and as a game maker it sometimes feels like your efforts are pointless when facing a tsunami of "content" overshadowing you.

When we conceived Panthalassa there was a clear goal of marketing or selling it. Only as time went on and we decided to pour more effort into this project did we seriously start talking about actually trying to make money off of it. As I'm sure that you know, things are hard for everyone right now, many of us working in the game's industry have lost their jobs over 2 brutal years of layoffs where over 25% of game devs in Europe have lost their jobs.

The reason why I am talking about this and not Panthalassa is because I would hope the game speaks for itself. If you like what you see, please give it a try! If you tried it and there's something you didnt like, please tell us! We wanted to release this demo to get people's opinions on what we have done so far, and to shape the future of our game around it.  

 THANK YOU FOR PLAYING PANTHALASSA!