- Check out our new game! - 26 April 2019
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- Black The Fall Out Now On the Nintendo Switch European eShop - 9 January 2018
Just as promised, Black The Fall is out now on the Nintendo Switch eShop for Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, available for purchase at 10% discount, after a successful launch in December for United States, Canada and Mexico. Grab your Joy-Con™ controllers and prepare for some emotional time travel into a dark world inspired by Romanian Communism and 90’s Sci-fi universe, as you take control of an old machinist who manipulates his way out of The System.
- Black The Fall Out Now On the Nintendo Switch European eShop - 9 January 2018
Just as promised, Black The Fall is out now on the Nintendo Switch eShop for Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, available for purchase at 10% discount, after a successful launch in December for United States, Canada and Mexico. Grab your Joy-Con™ controllers and prepare for some emotional time travel into a dark world inspired by Romanian Communism and 90’s Sci-fi universe, as you take control of an old machinist who manipulates his way out of The System.
- Black The Fall is Coming to Nintendo Switch™ This Winter - 11 December 2017
After a short debate, The Party has unanimously agreed to open a new branch this Winter, in order to enable more workers to serve the country. After being successfully launched earlier this year on Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Black The Fall is coming to the Nintendo Switch system on December 14th in United States, Canada and Mexico and, in early January, in Europe. Grab your Joy-Con™ controllers and prepare for some emotional time travel into a dark world inspired by Romanian Communism and 90’s Sci-fi universe, as you take control of an old machinist who manipulates his way out of The System. Check out the trailer HERE and the Nintendo Switch™ game page HERE.
- Black The Fall is Coming to Nintendo Switch™ This Winter - 11 December 2017
After a short debate, The Party has unanimously agreed to open a new branch this Winter, in order to enable more workers to serve the country. After being successfully launched earlier this year on Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Black The Fall is coming to the Nintendo Switch system on December 14th in United States, Canada and Mexico and, in early January, in Europe. Grab your Joy-Con™ controllers and prepare for some emotional time travel into a dark world inspired by Romanian Communism and 90’s Sci-fi universe, as you take control of an old machinist who manipulates his way out of The System. Check out the trailer HERE and the Nintendo Switch™ game page HERE.
- Black The Fall Lights Up In Razer Chroma & Patch 2.0 Notes - 27 November 2017
We are thrilled to let you know that, starting today, Black The Fall makes your RAZER Chroma devices light up! The RAZER Chroma integration for Black The Fall centres around offering hints regarding what controls to use when and marking occasional challenges in a celebratory way. Get ready for some red, white and yellow lights to dance on your desk when playing as Black. Black The Fall Patch 2.0 notes: Updates: - Razer Chroma integration for keyboard, mouse and mouse pad - The Halloween mini-game is included in the Main Menu under Extras. Fixes: - Having multiple controllers plugged in works now - additional key mapping for playing with the arrows and surrounding keys (press 0 / Insert to interact)
- Black The Fall Lights Up In Razer Chroma & Patch 2.0 Notes - 27 November 2017
We are thrilled to let you know that, starting today, Black The Fall makes your RAZER Chroma devices light up! The RAZER Chroma integration for Black The Fall centres around offering hints regarding what controls to use when and marking occasional challenges in a celebratory way. Get ready for some red, white and yellow lights to dance on your desk when playing as Black. Black The Fall Patch 2.0 notes: Updates: - Razer Chroma integration for keyboard, mouse and mouse pad - The Halloween mini-game is included in the Main Menu under Extras. Fixes: - Having multiple controllers plugged in works now - additional key mapping for playing with the arrows and surrounding keys (press 0 / Insert to interact)
- Postmortem: The totalitarian puzzle-platformer Black The Fall - 9 November 2017
My name is Cristian Diaconescu. I'm a 3D artist, game designer, motorcycle rider, and the creative director at Sand Sailor Studio, with over 15 years of experience and university studies in both programming and graphic design. My game Black The Fall, a communist-inspired puzzle-platformer title, was funded on Kickstarter and backed by Execution Labs. The award-winning title was published on July 11, 2017, by Square Enix Collective on Steam, PS4 and Xbox One. Black The Fall was born in 2014 as an art project: a black and white stealth-platformer set in an alienated world. The game concept came as a means to illustrate and express rebellion against the mechanisms of a heavily corrupted system, rooted in the decades of communism Romania has endured. In the months that followed, myself and co-founder Nicoleta Iordanescu discovered that there's much to envisage about the communist mentality:…
- Postmortem: The totalitarian puzzle-platformer Black The Fall - 9 November 2017
My name is Cristian Diaconescu. I'm a 3D artist, game designer, motorcycle rider, and the creative director at Sand Sailor Studio, with over 15 years of experience and university studies in both programming and graphic design. My game Black The Fall, a communist-inspired puzzle-platformer title, was funded on Kickstarter and backed by Execution Labs. The award-winning title was published on July 11, 2017, by Square Enix Collective on Steam, PS4 and Xbox One. Black The Fall was born in 2014 as an art project: a black and white stealth-platformer set in an alienated world. The game concept came as a means to illustrate and express rebellion against the mechanisms of a heavily corrupted system, rooted in the decades of communism Romania has endured. In the months that followed, myself and co-founder Nicoleta Iordanescu discovered that there's much to envisage about the communist mentality:…
- Shooting for a Black Halloween on Steam – 34% off + Halloween DLC - 26 October 2017
To spice things up a bit for October’s sake, The Party has decided to pay its respects to Halloweeners by efficiently preparing some pumpkins for export. However, it seems that not everyone is on board with the decision and a sabotage is being planned among the workers. Destroying the pumpkins would act as an SOS message sent to the other countries, that things are not as happy and bright as presented by the Party to the outside world. Will you join the movement and help destroy some Halloween pumpkins? If you already own Black The Fall, just check the game menu for the Halloween mini-game. If you don’t own it, you might reconsider that, given the 33% discount. And, you know, if you’re happy with Black The Fall, it would help us tremendously if you’d leave a review. May you have a Black Halloween!
- Shooting for a Black Halloween on Steam – 34% off + Halloween DLC - 26 October 2017
To spice things up a bit for October’s sake, The Party has decided to pay its respects to Halloweeners by efficiently preparing some pumpkins for export. However, it seems that not everyone is on board with the decision and a sabotage is being planned among the workers. Destroying the pumpkins would act as an SOS message sent to the other countries, that things are not as happy and bright as presented by the Party to the outside world. Will you join the movement and help destroy some Halloween pumpkins? If you already own Black The Fall, just check the game menu for the Halloween mini-game. If you don’t own it, you might reconsider that, given the 33% discount. And, you know, if you’re happy with Black The Fall, it would help us tremendously if you’d leave a review. May you have a Black Halloween!
- Black The Fall in Real Life - 26 September 2017
To wrap up the melancholic journey we started with in the FAQ section and continued with the Communism related blog posts. shaping the context of the real life events that inspired some game scenes, characters and mechanisms, we thought of sharing with you a couple of real life photos, that served as inspiration for some game scenes. Communism intended to be the religion of efficiency, pragmatism and equality through hard work and community values; the ideal sharing economy. Within this paradigm, the individual, the soul, the mind, the spiritual, were all considered distractions from the path they drafted for humanity: progress through physical work and equality for everyone. Sounds awesome? Well, perspectives: consider being equal to the ones on top for a few seconds. Lovely right? How about being equal to the less fortunate? This is a question we usually forget to ask ourselves when w…
- Black The Fall in Real Life - 26 September 2017
To wrap up the melancholic journey we started with in the FAQ section and continued with the Communism related blog posts. shaping the context of the real life events that inspired some game scenes, characters and mechanisms, we thought of sharing with you a couple of real life photos, that served as inspiration for some game scenes. Communism intended to be the religion of efficiency, pragmatism and equality through hard work and community values; the ideal sharing economy. Within this paradigm, the individual, the soul, the mind, the spiritual, were all considered distractions from the path they drafted for humanity: progress through physical work and equality for everyone. Sounds awesome? Well, perspectives: consider being equal to the ones on top for a few seconds. Lovely right? How about being equal to the less fortunate? This is a question we usually forget to ask ourselves when w…
- See you at Gamescom 2017! - 17 August 2017
We're happy to let you know that we're bringing Black The Fall again at Gamescom 2017, which this year takes place on 22-26 August, in Cologne. We'll showcase the game as part of the amazing Indie Arena Booth (Hall 10.1, Booth A-030), the world’s largest shared game developer showcase. We'll be close to our friends, the creators of Oh My God Heads, FAR: Lone Sails, Orwell or Frost Punk. But there will be so many more fun, quirky, artsy games worth checking out (full list here). If you plan to be at Gamescom this year, we'd really love to see you, so do stop by our booth to say hi or try the demo we prepare especially for Gamescom, together with a little surprise. PS: If you're into Romanian games or you just want to see what we've got, do check out the Romanian Game Developers Association booth (Hall 10.1, Booth D-061) where you can meet Killhouse Games, Rikodu, Angry Mob, White Pond, C…
- See you at Gamescom 2017! - 17 August 2017
We're happy to let you know that we're bringing Black The Fall again at Gamescom 2017, which this year takes place on 22-26 August, in Cologne. We'll showcase the game as part of the amazing Indie Arena Booth (Hall 10.1, Booth A-030), the world’s largest shared game developer showcase. We'll be close to our friends, the creators of Oh My God Heads, FAR: Lone Sails, Orwell or Frost Punk. But there will be so many more fun, quirky, artsy games worth checking out (full list here). If you plan to be at Gamescom this year, we'd really love to see you, so do stop by our booth to say hi or try the demo we prepare especially for Gamescom, together with a little surprise. PS: If you're into Romanian games or you just want to see what we've got, do check out the Romanian Game Developers Association booth (Hall 10.1, Booth D-061) where you can meet Killhouse Games, Rikodu, Angry Mob, White Pond, C…
- Black The Fall Patch 1.0 - 25 July 2017
Hi all, It’s been two weeks since the launch of Black The Fall, thank you so much for taking the time to give us consistent feedback during this time. We have been listening and working hard on the first patch for Black The Fall, and although most of the feedback has been positive we wanted to make the experience as smooth as possible for players and address some of the minor gripes you’ve been having with the game, so this introduces us to our first patch. Patch 1.0 Settings options: Added Vsync option in Settings. Additional keyboard mappings: CONTROL for crouch, Left SHIFT for running. Fixes: Fix for player letting go of the ledge if pause menu is deactivated (via keyboard - Escape key or controller back button). Fix for game menus appearing off-screen on ultra-wide monitors. Fix for the resolution not changing when selecting a new value with the same width but different height. Fix…
- Black The Fall Patch 1.0 - 25 July 2017
Hi all, It’s been two weeks since the launch of Black The Fall, thank you so much for taking the time to give us consistent feedback during this time. We have been listening and working hard on the first patch for Black The Fall, and although most of the feedback has been positive we wanted to make the experience as smooth as possible for players and address some of the minor gripes you’ve been having with the game, so this introduces us to our first patch. Patch 1.0 Settings options: Added Vsync option in Settings. Additional keyboard mappings: CONTROL for crouch, Left SHIFT for running. Fixes: Fix for player letting go of the ledge if pause menu is deactivated (via keyboard - Escape key or controller back button). Fix for game menus appearing off-screen on ultra-wide monitors. Fix for the resolution not changing when selecting a new value with the same width but different height. Fix…
- Inside-a-like puzzle platformer Black The Fall is out now - 12 July 2017
Following in the footsteps of Children of Zodiarcs , Black The Fall is the latest Square Enix Collective game that's also the debut venture of the Bucharest-based Sand Sailor Studio. Said to reflect the team and their families' "first-hand experiences", the sombre puzzle platformer aims to "capture the feeling of what it was like to live in the communist state." As such, Black The Fall portrays themes of surveillance, oppression and totalitarianism against a muted palette which is reminiscent of Playdead's similarly structured indie hit Inside . Here's some of that in motion:  "The world Black lives in might be fictional, but the system trying to beat him down is as bleak and oppressive as it has been in many countries around the world," says Sand Sailor's creative director Cristian Diaconescu. "Romania only broke free of the shackles of the Soviet bloc les…
- Black The Fall Is Now Available - 11 July 2017
July 11th will be remembered in history as the day The Party has launched Black The Fall. There will be yearly parades with people cheering and walking synchronously. Some will dance and sing about the greatness of Black. But until then you can watch the launch trailer Black The Fall is out, but Black is still trapped, help him break the chains of oppression today! We’d love to hear your thoughts! For game feedback, gamers all over the world, are invited to unite here. If you encounter any proletarian bugs, please report them here.
- Black The Fall Is Now Available - 11 July 2017
July 11th will be remembered in history as the day The Party has launched Black The Fall. There will be yearly parades with people cheering and walking synchronously. Some will dance and sing about the greatness of Black. But until then you can watch the launch trailer Black The Fall is out, but Black is still trapped, help him break the chains of oppression today! We’d love to hear your thoughts! For game feedback, gamers all over the world, are invited to unite here. If you encounter any proletarian bugs, please report them here.
