Evoland

Evoland
Developer(s)	Shiro Games, Playdigious (iOS, Android)
Publisher(s)	Shiro Games
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, Android, iOS
Release	Microsoft Windows, OS X April 4, 2013 Android, iOS February 2, 2015 Linux March 9, 2015
Genre(s)	Action Adventure, RPG
Mode(s)	Single-Player

Evoland is a 2013 role-playing video game developed by Shiro Games, a French video game development company based in Bordeaux. Evoland was first released for Microsoft Windows and OS X in April 2013, Android and iOS in February 2015 and Linux in March 2015.

The design retraces the history of video games. Inspired by The Legend of Zelda, Diablo and Final Fantasy gameplay, the game has many references to movies and video game history. As the player progresses, they unlock new technologies and graphical upgrades that nod towards different eras of the video game industry.

A sequel, named Evoland 2: A Slight Case of Spacetime Continuum Disorder, was announced at the end of 2014 and was released August 25, 2015.

Originally, Evoland was a video game created by Nicolas Cannasse during the 24th Ludum Dare, an “accelerated video game competition”. Participants have 48 hours to create a video game respecting a given theme. The 24th Ludum Dare theme was “Evolution”. Nicolas Cannasse proposed Evoland in about 30 hours and won first place despite the competition of 1,400 other participants. The concept he proposed can be defined as a game which changes as the player follows the history of RPGs.

The player feedback was very encouraging. Evoland Classic quickly reached over 300,000 players within a couple of months, and is still playable on the Evoland Website for free. Also, as common in Ludum Dare, the Haxe source code was made available, in this case on GitHub.

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