Mazzeru

Let’s dive into the game… (english version)

We’d like to detail to you our student game, that will be released this Summer on PC, Mazzeru :)

“Un’ si sà mai da u bè à u malu”

We never know if it’s good or evil, like we use to say in Corsica. Some actions seem to be bad but can prove to be good, and vice versa, and every acts combined of several individuals are even more unpredictable. It is far from clear…

This is the big struggle of the mazzeru : relentless killer or necessary guide, tradition hesitates about this funereal Corsican prophet. In his or her dreams, the mazzeru kills an animal and realizes that this is somebody he knows. The victim, deprived of its soul, will probably die in the days ahead… unless one saves him.

This is Orsa, the Main Character of Mazzeru (made by Victor Mellini - personnal site here)

In this third-person adventure and reflexion game, there is these dualities : day and night, reality and dream, life and death.

Orsa, the heroine, discovers during a strange and brutal dream that she is a mazzera, and will visit her island and village seeking the future victim.

With an old storyteller named Deziu and the intrepid Luciferu, his two guides in this tragedy, the player gradually understands the different links between the villagers : in these places where peoples are consolidated and interdependents, anything is heard, anything is known, anything is told.

Luciferu and Deziu, with their particular visual style (made by Victor Mellini - personnal site here)

Most of the play experience is therefore based on what is seen and told.

The lucid dreams of Orsa, the scenery and all the dialogues with multiple choices are useful clues for the rescue she initiated. Depending on who she talks to, in which order and what she says, she gets different informations to improve her investigation.

The player has to unravel the true from the false and the essential from the useless if he wants a chance to save the unfortunate person he doomed at the beginning of the game.

Rough 2D mock-up of the in-game camera - A Third Person video game

Who is going to die ? Is Orsa capable of saving him ? How does she live her new burden and how is she perceived by the villagers ?

So many mysteries and questions which we can answer only by playing Mazzeru, a deeply Corsican video game, in its language, its fabled inspirations and its medieval world.

But will you be brave enough to be a mazzeru ?

“ Man of the night, the mazzeru is a hunter who kills during a nocturn dream the double of an inhabitant of its village, incarnated by an animal.“
Pierre-Jean Luccioni

” It is somebody who hunts at night, in a dreaming state. “
Dorothy Carrington

” The mazzeru is someone like you and me, who sees and hears what others can’t either see or hear. “
Roccu Multedo

Mazzeru is an action-adventure game set in a world inspired by tales and legends of Corsica and the Mediterranean region.

You play a young man discovering that he is a mazzeru, a soothsayer who sees in dream the upcoming death of someone he knows, and investigate during the day to find and save the future victim.

Wonderful adventure, oneiric epopee and tragic tale, it is also an opportunity to discover a fantasized Mediterranean island, irrigated by myth and history, caught between dream and reality.

« Homme de nuit, le mazzeru est un chasseur qui tue en rêve, lors d’une chasse nocturne, le double d’un habitant du village, incarné par un animal.»
Pierre-Jean Luccioni

« C’est quelqu’un qui chasse la nuit, dans un état de rêve. »
Dorothy Carrington

« Le mazzeru est un homme comme vous et moi, […] qui voit et qui entend ce que les autres ne peuvent voir ni entendre. »
Roccu Multedo

Mazzeru est un jeu d’action-aventure dans un univers inspiré de contes et légendes de Corse et de toute la Méditerranée.

Le joueur incarne un jeune homme découvrant qu’il est un mazzeru, un devin voyant en rêve la mort prochaine d'un individu, et doit enquêter pendant la journée pour retrouver et sauver la future victime.

Aventure merveilleuse, épopée onirique et conte tragique, c'est aussi l'occasion de découvrir une île méditerranéenne fantasmée, irriguée du mythe et de l'histoire, prise entre le rêve et la réalité.

Mazzeru hè un ghjocu azzione-aventura in un mondu di fàvuli e legendi di Corsica è di Meditarraniu.

U ghjucadore incarnà un giuvanottu chi hè un mazzeru, habile a vede in sonniu a morte di un cumpaisanu, è deve invistigà durante a ghjurnata pà truvà è salvà la futura vittima.

Maravigliosa aventura, epupea sunniata è tragica fola, hè dinù l'occasione di scupra una fantasticata ìsula meditarrania, mischiu di mitu è di storia, trà sonniu è rialità.