‘Kind Barabin Expedition Team’ is a friendship adventure game based on the adventures of the green bean explorer Barabin, whom they met by chance. The game tells the story of growing up by making new friends and overcoming unexpected ordeals in a fictional area called ‘Handong’ that resembles Korea’s 1990s and ’00s.
As a phrase that symbolizes ‘things we cannot do alone, KIN:D that is possible because we are together’, the game ‘kind’, ‘things we cannot do alone’ is the genre of the game, exploration, and ‘because we are together’ is the theme of friendship. and group, which is the core function, and ‘KIN:D’ refers to the kind of race, the core material of the game.
1. Kind
Kind refers to a virtual race that appears in the game. They have various appearances and abilities that are different from humans, and they are people who live together with humans in human society.
As the protagonists of the game, we borrow the abilities of those who are full of personality to help us with our adventures, and sometimes we are hindered by others.
2. Exploration
In the game, there is a region called Handong in a location similar to that of Gyeonggi-do in Korea. Handong is a place with varying degrees of urbanization, just like the areas near Seoul in the 1990s and 2000s. In this area, which looks like a city to the north and a farm village to the south, unlike the real place, a race called Kind lives with humans.
When the game begins, the main character comes to see his grandmother in the southernmost village of Handong on the occasion of the anniversary of the opening of the school.
3. Friendship
As mentioned earlier, friendship refers to the group function, which is both the subject of the game and the main system of the game. As the controlling character, you can interact with other characters to walk with them, or press the detach button to travel separately, which solves a number of problems.
1. main character
The protagonist is an ordinary 10-year-old boy who symbolizes the gamer’s childhood. The main character does not have special abilities such as Kind, but can solve problems by using various tools in the bag.
2. Barabin
Barabin is a kind of explorer who resembles a bean with a broad and righteous personality. They have the ability to move by digging, and they use this to help them navigate blocked roads or find hidden things.
Anti-Aliasing is an indie development team consisting of two graphic artists, one designer, one programmer, and one sound artist as a team of five people.
Anti-aliasing creates a story for play and enjoyable play experiences that best represent the theme of the story. Anti-aliasing wants to be a beautiful gray between two values that are incompatible.
‘Project Kind’ started in January 2019. This project, which wanted to leave a tribute to the times that raised us and the various creations of the 90’s and 00’s, when developers were growing up, started as an animation, but someone who wanted to leave a story about the experience as an experience The idea of the game changed its delivery method.
Although the game development started in earnest by recruiting programmer members, animations and games showed a clear difference in the way of delivering fun and its grammar. We have grown into a team that can develop games, not the video media we were familiar with, through mentoring and networking by supporting Smilegate membership and creative talent companion projects. We are focusing on development.
- February 25: Funding begins and new demo released
- April 22: Funding End Date
- May 06: Deposit donations and start mass production of goods
- May: Steam key, digital rewards distribution and sponsor-only demo released
- June 27: Expected date of completion of goods production
- July 12: Estimated delivery date of the gift
- August: PC platform official release
