Dark Tales from México. Prelude.

DARK TALES FROM MÉXICO
is a saga of 9 short games and a prelude in a 3D survival horror style, based on tales from the real Mexican folklore in which every monster it´s originally a physical sculpture made and painted by hand and then 3D scanned using photogrammetry.

HISTORY
You are Alma Guerrero, a young girl that lives with her grandma Esperanza, she is the only relative that you have left, but last night Esperanza didn´t come back home, the only clue you have to find her, is a dream in where you saw her inside the Cloister of San Jerónimo, an old building in the heart of Mexico City that is now used as a Museum.

Inside this Cloister (that is a recreation of the real Cloister where Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz lived and died), suddenly you find yourself surrounded and trapped by darkness and then, a talking cat named "Roble" appears, it seems to know your grandma and for some reason, he also knows thousands of legends and old stories. The key to finding Grandma Esperanza and to get out the Cloister is to face the specters that arise from those stories, so this cat can help Alma, but each story will question her own being, her true origin, who she really is, and what is she really looking for within the Cloister

4+ YEARS OF HORROR IN 10 SHORT GAMES
Dark Tales from Mexico is a saga of 9 short games plus this prelude that has been in development for more than 4 years in which we manage to collect not just thousands of ancient Mexican horror tales, but also hundreds of references to Mexican horror culture; movies, radio shows, comics, books, etc., which will be hidden as easter eggs everywhere in the games.

A HANDMADE VIDEO GAME
Hand made video game By physically sculpting and hand-painting all the spectra, we seek to retain the essential energy that the artists imprint on their pieces to transfer them into the game, just as the ancient Mexican peoples consider that artisans do with their crafts.

This way, the resulting models are unrepeatable, beautifully imperfect and unique, even the artist digital print is often preserved.