FACTSHEET
Official Game Title: Flow Weaver
Publisher Name:
Self-Published by Stitch Media
Developer:
Stitch Media
Based in Toronto, Canada
Genre:
VR Puzzle/Adventure Game
ESRB with Descriptors:
Rating Pending
Rating:
EVERYONE 10+ Minor language
Number of Players:
Single Player
Supported Play Modes: Single-Player Mode
Supported Platforms:
Meta Quest 1, Meta Quest 2, Rift S
Release Date/Window:
2021
Release Regions: Anticipated Worldwide
Marketing Tagline: You are trapped. Bound by magic by unknown captors. But you are a
Flow Weaver and you can move between dimensions.
Travel
amongst them, learn new spells, and uncover the secrets of this
strange world to orchestrate your escape.
Website: flow-weaver.com
SYNOPSIS
Flow Weaver is a
“multidimensional” VR game that immerses the player in a fantasy
world on the brink of cataclysm. You enter the world of Flow Weaver
trapped and bound to a single room, but your freedom lies within
your ability to control the “Flows” - the seven dimensions of magic
that overlap the Material World. In order to escape you must learn
how to navigate your way through all of the Flows, solving intuitive
puzzles and discovering how manipulating objects in one dimension,
or taking them to another changes them in accordance with each
Flow’s unique magics...and throughout it all, unravelling the
mystery of your captivity, and what being a Flow Weaver truly
entails.
Flow Weaver is a part of the Flowforged
universe. Flowforged is a creation of noted world-building writer,
Lucas Johnson (Silverstring Media).
GAMEPLAY
The primary gameplay centers around transitioning between your cell
and different dimensions (or "Flows") as you discover
them, learning how each Flow affects the world in different ways.
The player uses that knowledge to solve puzzles and challenges,
learn new skills or spells, and uncover new objects and new puzzles.
Eventually, they bring all their skills and all the dimensions
together to ultimately escape captivity.
Flow Weaver is
a seated VR experience, a design choice that was made early in its
development. We noticed that a majority of VR games had players
standing, using a wide range of movement, and that this didn’t
encourage users to remain in these games or experiences for an
extended period of time. We focus on ‘long play sessions’ that allow
a stronger narrative and free up the physical limitations of the
user. Doing so gives us the freedom to tell the story of Flow Weaver
at a pace and rhythm that isn’t rushed or condensed but flows
organically as it weaves the player into its web of fantasy and
lore.
VR offers an immersive experience unparalleled by
any other technology, which is what makes it such a powerful tool
for storytelling.
FEATURES:
• A seated VR experience
• 3 hours of immersive gameplay
•
Fully voiced narrative dialogue featuring Ciarán Strange
(Borderlands 3) as the Flow Weaver
• Music composed by Devin
Vibert
DEVELOPERS
Flow Weaver is a collaborative effort between
Stitch Media and
Silverstring Media.
Stitch Media is a Canadian interactive media
production company that specializes in telling stories using new
technology. Our work encompasses game development, experiential
storytelling, interactive documentary and content development. We
have created interactive experiences and digital outreach strategies
for clients such as Shaw Media, HGTV, CBC, The Darknet Files,
American Gods, and Harlequin. Flow Weaver is the newest addition to
our expanding game portfolio that includes Terrorarium - a PC game
about wanton destruction, adorable gore, and...gardening, and Rival
Books of Aster - a digital collectible card game for iOS featuring
over 200 unique spells to build decks and battle other players from
around the world.
Silverstring Media is a game and
narrative design studio in Vancouver, BC, crafting original games
and providing services in digital place-making and storytelling.
They are world-builders. They strive to push the boundaries of
digital media, narratives, and architectural experiences,
experimenting with form and content. Their aim is to bring diversity
and hope to our stories and culture.
OUR PARTNERS
Silverstring Media
Silverstring Media is a game and narrative design studio in
Vancouver, BC, crafting original games and providing services in
digital place-making and storytelling. We are world-builders. We
strive to push the boundaries of digital media, narratives, and
architectural experiences, experimenting with form and content. Our
aim is to bring diversity and hope to our stories and culture.
Meta Quest
The Meta Quest team at Facebook builds the VR hardware and platform
to let people experience anything, anywhere, with anyone.
Additionally, Facebook has teams dedicated to building social
experiences in VR that make it easier to spend time with friends,
wherever they are.
Meta Quest has been making VR hardware
since 2013. In the early days, they shipped developer kits to ensure
creators shaped the future of Meta Quest hardware. As a result of
the community's continued support, they are making strides to
bring VR to everyone. They have the most passionate PC VR following
with the Meta Quest Rift S + Touch and the largest, mobile VR
audience through Meta Quest Go and now with Meta Quest, the first
standalone, all-in-one, 6DOF headset.
Canada Media Fund
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) supports the creation and promotion of
popular and innovative Canadian content, as well as of innovative
software for current and emerging digital platforms. CMF guides
Canadian content towards a competitive global digital environment by
fostering industry innovation, rewarding success, enabling a
diversity of voices and promoting access to content through
partnerships with industry and the private sector.
Ontario Creates
Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), an agency of the
Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport is the central catalyst for
the province’s cultural media cluster including book publishing,
film and television, interactive digital media, magazine publishing
and music industries. Interactive digital media production
contributes over $1.1 billion in revenue annually to Ontario and
supports 17,000 jobs. The Interactive Digital Media Fund was
launched in 2005, and since then has supported over 400 projects
with total funding of over $35 million.
The Games Institute - University of Waterloo
The Games Institute conducts research into the past, present, and
future of games. Our researchers span the breadth of related
disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences through
engineering and computer science. With a research network joining
multiple universities and multiple industry partners, we explore the
human side of games and game-related technologies and interactions,
with the constant goal of understanding the compelling user
engagement that games deliver in fields ranging from entertainment,
education, health, and business.
Mitacs
Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit organization that has designed
and delivered research and training programs in Canada for 18 years.
Mitacs is funded by the federal and provincial governments as well
as university and industry partners. Mitacs internships connect
companies and organizations with graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows, who apply their specialized expertise to research
challenges. Working with 60 universities, thousands of companies,
and both federal and provincial governments, Mitacs builds
partnerships that support industrial and social innovation in
Canada. Open to all disciplines and all industry sectors, projects
can span a wide range of areas, including manufacturing, business
processes, IT, social sciences, design and more.
Click here to download our full media kit.
Logo
Key Art
Screenshots
Selected Articles
"Flow Weaver nominated as Best Virtual Reality Game at the
Canadian Screen Awards 2019."
Request a Press Copy
Contact
evan@stitchmedia.ca to request a press copy.
Boilerplate
Stitch Media is a
game production company focused on building innovative digital
experiences and meaningful audience engagement with new technology.
We have been operating since 2007, creating storytelling and
gameplay experiences that evolve with the times. Our projects span
web, mobile and games that push the boundaries of what's
possible. Our work has been recognized nationally by the Digi
Awards, Applied Arts Magazine, the Canadian Screen Awards and
internationally by UNESCO's World Summit. Our team has worked
with Disney, Microsoft, FOX, Discovery, CBC, Bell and consulted for
the Smithsonian Institute and the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.
More Information
To learn more
about Stitch Media, including our other projects,
click here.
To download our logos,
click here.
Contact
Inquiries: flowweaver@flow-weaver.com