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Travel all over the world with Zoe, and reveal Artus Cropp's legacy, a physicist who mysteriously disappeared in the 60's after he made an incredible discovery hidden inside the matter.

Here are a few particularities of this game which makes it a bit special:

- The CEA is a (french) public scientific research organism working in various fields, we are not a professional studio. The game was "homemade" with our fellow scientists and a ridiculous budget (just 1 dev and 1 artist), that's why gameplay and graphics are quite simple!

- It's totally free: no ads, no account required (unless you want to synchronise your progression on several devices). Our sole purpose is to disseminate science and make it fun!

- It features 10 to 12h of gameplay including more than 30 logic or science based, and very original puzzles (have you ever played with a particle accelerator, a fuel cell or a mass spectrometer?)

- Adventure, sci-fi plot, humor, secondary quests...: it's much more a " game serious " than a " a serious game ". You don't have to be a scientist to play it, as you can use clues to help you if you're stuck, but if you're curious you can also learn more about the science inside the game with many complementary videos.

- It's a browser-based game, nothing to install, you just need a modern browser (chrome recommended), including smartphones and tabs. It can be installed as a an app (for android) from the website and can also be preloaded to reduce loading times and play offline.

That's all, hope you'll like our little game! Feel free to share your comments here or on the discord server.

- The quantum Prisoner team.

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cea-dcom3 years ago

Thank you for your answers ! So, I'll contact the support. The case you mention about the server based MMO example is interesting.

About the size, to be more specific the game itself is around 350mb (it's still a lot but it's a "big" browser game, around 12 -15 h of play time to complete it) but it embeds 1gb of complementary videos (our scientists explaining a bit more about the science and technology involved in the puzzles you play, the "serious" part, not mandory to watch them). The game is loaded gradually as you progress in the story, but can also be fully preloaded in cache when you're on a WIFI connexion so as to reduce loading times, data consumption , and even play offline.

@William : You mean that link: https://discord.com/channels/640867701979480070/705349661594091540 ? Strange, it works fine for me, what error do you get ?

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cea-dcom3 years ago

Hi,

First, sorry if this question has already been answered somewhere else (didn't manage to find the answer in the documentation or in this community). Second, sorry for my poor english !

We are a french scientific research organization (not a professional studio) and we created our own adventure/puzzle game to diffuse science (especially to young peoples), which is totally free and browser based. (You can check the mini trailer game here: https://cea-dcom.itch.io/quantum-prisoner)

Now, we are almost ready to release the full game (in english) and we'd like to propose it and promote it on itch.io as we did for the trailer minigame, but we have two problems:

1) the game is quite big (1.5gb), too much for itch.io project dowload page

2) the game will be hosted on its own website (https://quantum-prisoner.com)

So my question is: is there a way to embed a game hosted somewhere else into an itch project page (or is it against itch policy)? and if so, how to do it ?

This would also simplify the process to push new versions, and make our game analytics work (which is the only part of the game that requieres a server module).

Thank you very much for the answer.

- the quantum prisoner team