About The Game
Sintel The Game is a video game adaptation of the Blender Foundation’s 3rd open film Sintel. (Project Durian)
The Blender Foundation showed off their plans for the next open movie, Sintel in August of 2009. Our team was struck with inspiration so we tossed around the idea of working together to make a game project that would somehow relate to the movie. Over time, Sintel The Game was born.
Story
Where would a Sintel game be without an epic story? We wanted to make sure players got the full experience from such an epic movie, this required careful planning and immense detail when it came to writing the story. We couldn’t live up to the Sintel name without having intense action while also connecting emotionally to the player. Malcolm Corliss was asked to write a script that could meet these requirements, and he went above and beyond. We are proud of our story so here is a little summary followed by an excerpt from the script.
Sintel – The Game takes place within the events of the movie. Sintel finds herself just outside the town of Garway. She bumps into some bandits who attack her and she is taken into the care of a kind stranger. You play as Sintel and follow her on her journey through Garway. On the way you will discover that the guards of Garway are corrupt, and help to rise against them.
(Sintel walks down the cobble stone street towards the gate, she catches the eye of the guards as she approaches. A little orphan girl runs past her dressed in a faded red dress with patches of pink that had been sewn in to cover the tears. Her face covered with dirt as is her blonde hair. She runs up to the guard as Sintel approaches the gate.)
Guard: are you loitering, or leaving?
Sintel: Leaving.
Guard: Let her through.
(Sintel looks over towards the orphan girl ((Camera switches to orphan)).
Orphan: Please sir can you help me, my parents are missing.
Guard: No, now go play
Orphan (Grabs the guard by the arm ((starts to cry)): Please sir I’ve been wandering the streets for days.
Guard (Throwing the orphan to the ground): Get off me you little rat, I said go!
(Single tear drop rolls down the cheek of the orphan girl. (Camera closes up to tear drop with Sintel looking onward.) The Orphan gets up and runs by Sintel heavy in grief over the loss of her parents.
Guard: Are you going through or not?