Haunted Mouse News
The Tube Devlog #1
What The Tube Has to Do with the DDR
Published on July 22, 2024
No, you haven't stumbled onto some socialist propaganda site. The image on the left actually reveals something about the story of our survival horror game, The Tube. The depicted Brother’s Kiss between former DDR leader Erich Honecker and the head of the CPSU, Leonid Brezhnev, essentially sets the backdrop for our story.
You see, the protagonist of The Tube, Annabelle Schultze, was a citizen of the DDR, albeit a very young one. At just 5 years old, she fled the socialist regime with her parents by crossing the inner-German border. While this event occurred over three decades ago in The Tube's timeline, Annabelle will confront her past sooner than she would like.
To share tidbits like this, we launched this website. This news section is meant to serve as a blog that we'll gradually fill with interesting devlogs. However, since The Tube is still in a very early stage of development, we ask for your patience with vague language and a bit of secrecy at the outset. Unfortunately, experience shows that revealing an innovative game idea too early can lead to it being stolen and implemented by unscrupulous developers before the original even releases. To be clear, we don't think we're creating the next cutting-edge horror game. :) We just want to ensure that we can continue to enjoy developing The Tube.
Right now, we're almost full-time focused on story and character writing, as well as the soundscape for our game. While the story's main elements are already written and the main characters are mostly developed, we now need to complete and refine the narrative. You'll learn more about the story in upcoming devlogs – and much more.