Updated · OASIS Team
In Project Alchemy, you begin as a young, inexperienced alchemist. The fantasy world of Atror offers danger and discovery, but also a question: what is everything around you made of?
Understanding becomes useful
The starting point is a relationship: an object is made of parts, and those parts can become the beginning of another object. That relationship makes discovery valuable in more than one way. A place can be interesting to explore, a find can be useful to examine, and its components can matter later at the workbench.
This gives the alchemist a particular way of looking at Atror. The question is not simply whether something is valuable, but what it contains and how it might be used. Disassembly and assembly are two sides of that idea; crafting and alchemy give it different forms.
A fantasy approach to chemistry
Real and fictional reactions share a place in the game’s alchemy. Familiar chemical ideas provide inspiration, while invented interactions belong to the fantasy world. The goal is a game about discovery and making things, with its own rules and possibilities.
That distinction matters when describing the project. The alchemy system is part of a fantasy ActionRPG. Its materials and reactions should be understood in the context of play, rather than as real-world instructions or a chemistry course.
The alchemist has to venture out
A workshop alone would tell only one part of this character’s story. First-person exploration, combat and dungeon-crawling elements place the beginner in a world that can challenge him directly. The craft gives discoveries another meaning; the adventure gives the craft a world to belong to.
Project Alchemy remains in development. We will use its project page and future journal entries to show how these ideas connect in the game, with demonstrations and availability details when confirmed.
The current public picture
The game is in development for PC. This introduction describes its direction; it does not announce a demo or a release date. Follow the project page and studio communities for public demonstrations as they become available.
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