Description

How does inspiration flow?

Seek ideas and gather provocations in beautiful, broken places. Pull together threads of old stories or discard them and start anew. In a world of absence and abstraction the truth is in the telling.

TOTEM TELLER provides players a slow exploration of particular folk tales and the process of retelling. The experience is a type of digital archaeology relying on curiosity, symbolism, and transcendental style. Bold use of typography and image degradation create a distinct presentation of poetry and visual art to immerse in.

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"Of the many quirky, strange games at (PAX) this year, it was the quirkiest, it was the strangest"
- David Milner, gameinformer #108,

"...glitchy, beautiful fairy-tale world that invites the player to be the storyteller"
- Stephanie Chan, VentureBeat

"...messy, expressive, and abstract, and in motion its blend of painted landscapes and glitches is captivating."
- Chloi Rad, IGN

"while I consider myself a do-things kind of gamer... even I'm getting a bit of wanderlust just looking at Totem Teller."
- Austin Wood, PC Gamer

"A towering game of distortion and recomposition."
- EDGE #308,

"...a profoundly lonely figure among the gorgeous landscape."
- Amber Knox, KILLSCREEN

"As of right now, you know almost as much as I do about the game. The part that I still know and you don’t is that it is extremely pretty"
- Graham Smith, Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Project Credits

Ben Kerslake - ben@totemteller.com
Creative Director

Jerry Verhoeven
Technical Director

Alexander Swords
Writer & Narrative Designer

Kian How
Composer