A mysterious forest grows through the city streets and gigantic beasts battle across the skyline in Liquid City’s massively multiplayer AR game.
A mysterious forest grows through the city streets and gigantic beasts battle across the skyline in Liquid City’s massively multiplayer AR game.
Client
Collaboration with Verizon
Role
Concept, design + production
Overbeast Trailer from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
The world of the Overbeasts lies layered as a parallel dimension over our own; the Overbeast app allows players to become researchers - walking among the strange and beautiful trees and glimpsing powerful creatures stalking past buildings.
Each of these Overbeasts have claimed a state as its territory and local researchers must strengthen their beast by nurturing the shared forest - helping the creature win daily bouts against rival states in a bid to become the Ultimate Overbeast.
Underlying Overbeast’s spectacle and rivalry lies an ethos of shared care and responsibility for the environment. Everything in the Overworld is connected, from tiny mites, to trees to mighty Overbeasts - success in the game relies on understanding how to work together to nurture an ecosystem.
The message is carried by techno-mythology inspired UI design, mysterious and majestic overbeasts, the fragile beauty of the forest and an immersive soundscape featuring real Japanese taiko and live instruments inspired by the natural world.
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