Taste Of Heaven

As an Indie studio, Chromatic Dream can only hope to grow into something bigger, hopefully one day into a comfortable structure that would allow us to create side by side with other professionals from Réunion, because we could actually employ them and help boosting employment on our beautiful island in the process. Cutting the cake Here is a diagram explaining how your donations will be shared among us: If we want to implement some of that Ghibli inspiration that we care so much about in Taste of Heaven, we will have to refine animation, music and the lore in general to a level of perfection that is barely reachable at all, even with the proper time to spend on it and subsequent fundings. However we do trust the groove of our synergetic team core for that, given what we've been able to produce together so far. Yet, we won't be able to keep up with the workflow that a full game release demands and at some point, we will need new trusty team mates. To Heaven and back! For a very wide range of reasons, we decided that Taste of Heaven HAD to be a roguelite. Times are tough for classic story driven adventure games, and replayability has become an inevitable asset for any indie game trying to emerge even slightly today. Playing a game for twenty hours and replaying a game for hundreds is not the same at all. Not only our game loop must be impeccable, but it also needs to remain entertaining, which can be a true wager in terms of narrative design. Hence, the game will also have to evolve storywise and such textuality is a luxury that we cannot afford currently, which is also why we need you. Recruiting trusty partners Bouftang is an awesome association. As a matter of fact, it is the womb that has birthed and shouldered so many local talents during their first steps as professionals that we don't even have to wonder about who to recruit next. Now that Bouftang has helped us so much lately, carried us through success and now that we finally have a chance to shine, this crowdfunding gives us the opportunity to return the favor and help our friends from Réunion, or should I say our family. Preserving our independance The most important reason, because all the others actually cascade down from this one, is the maintainance of our independance. Until now, Taste of Heaven has been able to evolve along with a soothing wind of freedom, and every partner we have is truly passionate, fully on board with us in this project. We would like to keep things this way, but the industry makes it so that without your help, we would probably have to turn to publishers, which would most certainly end up altering our vision and taking away our freedom to choose whoever we want to work with on Taste of Heaven. Chromatic Dream started when two passionate game designers met: Rodolphe Bax (art) and Pierrick Cheminade (dev). They met at Little World Studio in Lyon during what was their first studio experience. In 2012, they created Chromatic Dream, in order to start designing original and catchy games that they would conceive during their free time. Soon, their first game was published: Jamsouls (on Steam and Xbox 360). 2022 was a decisive year for the studio, because this is the year it officially became Chromatic Dream Limited, which granted a new company status better fit to our ambitions for our new projet: Taste of Heaven. Rodolphe BAX aka RodStar974 Illustrator and gourmet extraordinaire born and raised in Réunion, Rodolphe finds harmony between making 2D HD games and his comic book Overkiller, probably one of the best in the world if not in the whole solar system. He is the Lead Artist and loves to make everything both soothing and colorful. If you have already seen his face, that's because he has become our mediatic figurehead lately. Pierrick CHEMINADE For 12 years, Pierrick has been roaming the seas of the gaming industry, as a globe trotter or even a polyglot adventurer to be more accurate. He has been a developer for such prestigious structures as Codemasters (Birmingham), Ubisoft (Newcastle/Chengdu) or even Square Enix (Tokyo). He has worked on various projects like Colin McRae Rally, The Crew, The Division, Assassin's Creed: Origins & Kingdoms, but also on numerous gamejam titles and indie games. As sturdy as an oak, he acts as the keel to our ship, that prevents it from capsizing. Bryan BARGOIN aka Arklan Composer, Sound Designer and VFX Artist, Bryan is a young virtuoso with a degree from the ILOI (Institut de l'Image de l'Océan Indien). He specializes in sound effects, musical ambiance and musical scores. He would be the sail of the ship, which uses a light and invisible force that has the potential to lift a whole vessel nonetheless. Thomas GUERMEUR aka Toto_Rollmop Professional Writer and Translator since 2012, Thomas has been a lifelong passionate gamer who specialized in indie game localizations (translation and adaptation for a target audience). Among the crew, well, he's the lookout guy, the one with the spyglass who may randomly start to get overexcited over a rock somewhere on the horizon... and translates stuff. Here's his Twitch channel where he'll keep you updated about our freshest news: We have introduced the core team of the game, but it would be unfair to go further while failing to mention another entity. The Bouftang Collective The Bouftang Collective was born in april 2014 from a necessity: to weave and strengthen the economic fabric of the game making industry in Réunion. For that purpose, its members organize energizing actions on a regular basis, in order to keep this professional sphere afloat. Since its creation, the sector's activity has multiplied into numerous local studios such as Chromatic Dream (our proud vessel). Many game projects were given a chance to exist thanks to this new dynamic. Bouftang has recently obtained the SNJV label, hence raising the proud banner of the harbour where we shall recruit our future mateys ! Obviously, a ship can't sail without a crew, and that is another reason why we need your help, because in fact, our partners at Bouftang are not mateys. They won't feed upon one rancid potato every two days while drowning their misery and their homesickness in a barrel of rum. They're developers, artists... They are true game makers and we want them aboard, so that they too can be a part of this great odyssea and get a chance to export their talent oversea. Promoting local craftmanship with our goodies Digital content is not everything when it comes to gaming. For a title to exist, there is an untold rule (not) saying that there NEEDS to be a plush made after the quirkiest character in the game. Since the card of quirkiness is played by a trio in Taste of Heaven, we needed reinforcement. We decided to look for local artists who could design our goodies for us and we found exactly who we were looking for. So, not only will your donations help our game maker association to rise, it will also help other local artists who weren't directly bound to the world of gaming professionally, but now can, thanks to you. If you want to discover Béatrice's work further, feel free to visit her Facebook page and to follow her on Twitter. If you want to discover the awesome Geekali convention and Miely's work on Facebook. Creative energy is what gives any game project a reason to exist, but as fantastic as the flame of passion can get, it may also burn off pretty fast without an external intervention. Seiya... Get back up Seiya! The life span of a video game can be incredibly erratic for a terrifying amount of reasons. Sometimes, whenever there is uncertainty preventing one from achieving something, it is just better to ask for help, which is exactly what we are doing. We have great expectations for Taste of Heaven, but we need to know somehow that we won't fall short of hands, of time or funds. We just want to make a nice game, something soothing and colorful, quirky and entertaining, something that tells a nice story, but with some unusual changes of pace. We want to keep control over all of that and deliver a game somehow shaped by all the intellectual honesty that we are capable of. We sincerely hope that you will love Taste of Heaven as we do. We will work hard to make it so and we thank you for your time reading this and for your potential future generous donations. Many Thanks to all the people from Réunion and elsewhere, all the friends, all the colleagues who voted for Taste of Heaven during the GAMECUP. Thanks to La Banque Postale, La région Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Le pôle image Magelis and all of the KissKissBankBank team for your support to game makers. Thanks to La région Réunion and specifically to the audio-visual department of the DIDN (Direction de l'Innovation et du Développement Numérique) for their great involvement in the game making field in Réunion. Obviously Thanks to all creators from Réunion and all the members of BOUFTANG. Thanks to the ILOI (l'Institut de L'image de l'Océan Indien) for existing and for having trained so many young talents over the years (and we're not just saying that because Rod was once a student there...) Thanks to all the streamers in our growing community. We won't forget all the great involvement you have shown and we wish to see you very soon for the next chapter of our great adventure. Many thanks to Victor AKA "Boeuf" for filming our AMAZING showcase video with us, hence allowing it to be that awesome and all the food in it to be so truly appetizing. Also thanks to the collective TORTOR, especially you Blenderman, AKA Pierre Fontaine for your presence, your patience and your benevolence, your salad sandwiches (weird), and your 3D pictures of our Onions. Thanks to all the people who have wishlisted Taste of Heaven on Steam, it sure helps a lot! Thank you all for your future contributions, shall they be tremendous or minor. Most of all... Thank YOU!