Brazilian developer and publisher ARVORE is proud to announce that their talented team is working on Pixel Ripped 1995, the sequel to one of the best VR titles of 2018, the multi-award winning Pixel Ripped 1989.
This time the team at ARVORE will delight gamers with an unforgettable nostalgia trip to the year 1995, a historical time when the first generations of home console players were maturing from teenager to adult, and games were evolving from 16-bit to the 32-bit era, and from 2D to 3D environments. Since the beginning of the project, there has been a very close and special connection between the development team and the Pixel Ripped community, and the future of the series was decided by the fans. Players who finished the first game encountered a time machine that allowed them to choose their favorite year, and the developers used that to decide the setting of the next game: Pixel Ripped 1995.
Cyblin Lord is returning again to steal the Pixel Stone, but our hero won’t allow that to happen. That is why the Pixel Ripped series mastermind and ARVORE’s Creative Director Ana Ribeiro is, once more, leading the development of Pixel Ripped 1995. Ana and her team are fully committed to give birth to another labour of love project, built from the ground up for Virtual Reality. Players of all major VR platforms will live a magical experience that will amaze them with the innovative use of classic mechanics, gaming references, secrets and of course, the challenging gameplay of the 90s classics.
“Thanks to the success of the first game we are able to dedicate more resources and have a lot more experience to create a game that is an even crazier nostalgic adventure. The setting of 1995 also gives us a lot of great classics to reference and a whole new world to explore,” says Ricardo Justus, Co-Founder of ARVORE.
In parallel, Pixel Ripped 1989 is still winning awards and recognition at some of the most renowned interactive arts Festivals in the World. Recently the game got awarded with the New Face Award at the 22nd Edition of the Japan Media Arts Festival. Ana, along with part of the team will be present at the Festival in Tokyo, which will be held in the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), where Pixel Ripped 1989 will be showcased from 1 to 16 of June. Additionally, the game has also been selected to be at SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference between 28th July and 1st August in Los Angeles, where Ana will be giving a talk about the development of the game. At BIG Festival 2019, the third most important Indie Game Festival in the World, the game has garnered four nominations including Best Game, Most Innovative Game, Best Brazilian Game and Best VR Game of 2018.
“Back in 2014 when Pixel Ripped was just a university project, I never imagined we would come this far. I feel extremely fortunate to be able to continue working inside the Pixel Ripped universe thanks to Arvore and the fans support. I can’t wait to share with the community the even more mind blowing things we are preparing for 1995,” says Ana, Creative Director at ARVORE.
