White Paper Games Announces Ether - A First Person Adventure Game

Written by: QuintLyn Bowers (@QuintLyn) | July 13, 2012 10:15 am

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If you’re looking for something different to play, I may have found the game for you!

Ether is a new first person adventure game from White Paper Games.

The game is based in an alternate world where mental illness could be cured by people using ethereal projection to enter people’s broken memories and fix them. You play as one of these people — called Restorers — who enters the mind of a woman named Jean and becomes lost – even losing grip on his own identity. In order to recover himself, he must explore Jean’s memories.

The art style for the game has a very gloomy, almos creepy atmosphere. And, the game is set up to be a mysterious as possible, requiring the players to solve puzzles as well as potentially participate in some ARG activity.

Check out the QR-Code at the end of the video.

While there is no official date for the game yet, it will be available on PC and Mac “soon”.

White Paper Games Announces Ether - A First Person Adventure Game

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415731451 Viktor Eliasson

I’m pretty sure YouTube’s decompression fucks slow-motion up. It only seems to become choppy on slow-moving videos.
- http://quintlyn.com/ QuintLyn Bowers
  
  Oh.. That’s a very good theory. :/ Way to bork things YouTube.
- Old Ben
  
  Video compressors have no way to know if they’re compressing a “slow motion” video or video of an actual thing that moves slowly.
  
  If anything, compressing video where frames are more similar to each other is easier, and generally results in better quality than videos with very fast motion and a lot of cuts (although, if there’s a lot of fast motion, our brains can’t follow the image as well, so we might not notice the lack of quality).
  
  The choppiness in that video seems to be due to a frame rate conversion (ex., the original was 10 fps and it’s been converted to 25 fps, so some frames were converted into two frames while other frames were converted into three frames, leading to uneven motion).
  
  Actually, if you watch the video directly in YouTube, the motion is more regular. Still choppy, because the original is 10 fps, but since YouTube plays it back at 30, every source frame ends up with 3 display frames, as least if you’re using Flash playback (not sure what happens with browser-native “HTML5″ playback – probably depends on the browser).
  
  The extra (irregular) choppiness seems to have been introduced by GBTV’s conversion (or screen capture software).
Makeitso GW

I really like the stylized graphics.
- http://quintlyn.com/ QuintLyn Bowers
  
  Yeah. I never really judge from fly-through type videos. But they do look nice and if the final product has the kind of atmosphere the video does, I’ll be all over this game.