Emily Short @ Gamasutra: "Recently Tale of Tales (of The Path fame) released a new interactive piece called Fatale, which explores the tale of Salome, the dancer who in compensation for her dancing requested (and got) the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter.
Like The Path, Fatale is by turns frustrating and fascinating, with controls that vex and nervewrackingly slow pacing. It's infuriatingly easy to nose yourself into some corner of the playspace and have trouble backing out. (It doesn't help that I was playing on a Mac, so the work's built-in instructions to use, e.g., the middle mouse button were unhelpful.) On the other hand there is so much incidental beauty and horror that one almost doesn't mind."
Belgian arthouse developers Tale of Tales have a pay-what-you-like offer on for three of their games.
I watched a vid of it being played on youtube once and it scared the crap outta me. It involved the slutty sister visiting Grandma's house after straying from the path and damn... it was intense.
Oscar Wilde probably isn't the first person you'd expect to be the driving force behind a game. Perhaps an inspiration for some witty dialogue or as the model for an effet uncle character in some strange Japanese adventure title. Surprisingly it's Salome, one of his more unusual plays which acts as the basis for Tale of Tales' follow-up to their excellent game The Path.
Tale of Tales, an independent game development studio run by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn and based Belgium, has the main purpose of helping videogames expand to a medium that can rival all others in terms of diversity and depth. This way, their work tends to be very experimental and, sometimes, not that popular and controversy because of all of that.
FATALE is one of the experimental videogames, created by a team of 8 in a period of 4 months and first released on 5 October 2009. The game production was supported by Flanders Audiovisual Fund. Now, thanks to the efficient Valve team, FATALE is available via Steam, for 7 US Dollars.
