GAME ART: SOFTETHIX' CHARLES MANSON, TIMOTHY LEARY, & THE ANIMALS OF NIMH (ONGOING & UPCOMING)
"Charles Manson, Timothy Leary, & the Animals of NIMH is the upcoming video game debut being developed by Softethix Studios, a computer entertainment studio subsidiary of newtonn.io. It is a narrative-driven, eco-horror stealth and platforming game made with all original assets and code, drawing its vision from the cruel work of the CIA and the unsettling animal experimentation conducted in the mid-20th century. Inspired by scientists like John Calhoun and Margaret Howe Lovatt, as well as the urban legends of Charles Manson and Timothy Leary and their radically different invocations of the psychedelic culture of 1960s America, the game tells the story of a society of rats beginning to develop human-like consciousness. Confined in their strange and ever-shifting enclosure, and subjected to the ruthless curiosity of their captors, the rats seek liberation among the ghettos of the experiment chamber universe they call home." (Source: SoftEthix)
SoftEthix is computer entertainment production studio located in New York making decidedly playable games created by artists, while leveraging a relationship with contemporary art and film to produce games that are unique and commercially viable.