The Pillars of the Earth is a 2-D point-and-click adventure video game adaptation based on Ken Follett's best-selling novel.This is the first official Ken Follett videogame to be developed. It will revolve around the story of Follett’s best-selling novel The Pillars of the Earth, published in 1989. At the same time, Ken Follett is also working on a new novel, which is scheduled to be published in fall 2017, and will be taking readers back to the fictitious medieval town of Kingsbridge in South England.
Set in 12th century England, a time of great poverty and war, “The Pillars of the Earth” takes place in the fictional town of Kingsbridge as it begins the construction of a Cathedral to assure wealth and security for its people. Philip, a monk, becomes the prior of Kingsbridge abbey. Jack, an ambitious architect, is commissioned to build the village cathedral. Aliena and her younger brother Richard, have to survive on their own; after their father, the Earl of Shiring, is incarcerated and murdered. Meanwhile, Prior Philip's rivals, Bishop Waleran and William Hamleigh, a vengeful noble rejected by Aliena, see the town and its rise to importance as a thorn in their flesh. They want to see Kingsbridge burn.
The development team took the 1200-pages book as the blueprint and, turned it into an interactive novel. Players follow a nonlinear storyline with 3 playable main characters.
The first book of Pillars of the Earth "From the Ashes" will be released on August 15th for PC, Mac, Linux, PS4 and Xbox One.
More information about book 2 and 3 will be shared at this year's Gamescom.
Features
- A thousand-page novel, adapted as a videogame across 21 chapters
- Change events from the novel and influence the fates of its characters
- Faithful rendition of the 12th century with over 200 hand painted backgrounds
- Three main playable protagonists, with two extra playable characters
- Orchestral soundtrack by the FILMharmonic Orchestra, Prague
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