The City of Lost Children

Description

You play Miette, a character from the movie of the same name. The graphics are the style of 3d characters over rendered backgrounds. You travel through the streets at the whim of Pieuvre, the siamese twins who are your schoolmistresses. You do small robberies for them, but soon a larger plot emerges. Mysterious men called Cyclopses are kidnapping children to steal their dreams. You must determine what is truly happening in this adventure game.

Alternate Titles

• "Lost Children: The City of Lost Children" -- Japanese title
• "La ciudad de los niños perdidos" -- Spanish title
• "La Cité des enfants perdus" -- French title
• "Die Stadt der verlorenen Kinder" -- German title

Part of the Following Groups

• Female protagonists
• Movie-inspired games

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The Press Says

Coming Soon Magazine	DOS	Mar, 1997	86 out of 100	86
PC Zone	Windows	Aug 13, 2001	8.4 out of 10	84
Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	Windows	Aug, 2002		80
PC Player (Denmark)	Windows	1997	80 out of 100	80
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Feb, 1997	68 out of 100	68
Gamezilla	DOS	1997	67 out of 100	67
GamePro	PlayStation	Apr, 1997	3 out of 5	60
PC Player (Germany)	Windows	Feb, 1997		60
IGN	PlayStation	May 23, 1997	5 out of 10	50
Edge	PlayStation	Mar, 1997	4 out of 10	40

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Trivia

The design team started to work from the movie sets using photos and movie clips. From there, the entire "city" was modeled in 3D using 3D Studio. All the textures were hand rendered and then added using DPaint and Photoshop. The modeling took some time in order to achieve the real cinematic camera angles utilized in the game. It took about one month to render each location (ten days for modeling, one week for texturing and 12 weeks for rendering the lighting effects). Softimage was used for the cinematic sequences. When the project was started there was no good technology as yet to integrate motion capture under 3D Studio -- therefore Softimage was used as the animation tool.