the ballad singer

The Ballad Singer, a completely Italian project, is now live on Kickstarter, as announced by Curtel Games, promising an across-the-board experience spanning the Visual Novel, RPG and game-book genres. TBS offers several distinguishing features: a complete narrative in both Italian and English, individual illustrations for each choice, hundreds of decision paths, and 40 different endings. The numbers for this project are noteworthy: the narrator will be reading about 400,000 words, the artist will be dealing with over 2,500 different illustrations. The structure of the game spreads like a huge tree, where every player’s choice doesn’t just affect the current storyline but also those of other playable characters and the gaming world altogether. But that’s not it, the concept of “...