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The largest share of the funding goes to the point-and-click adventure Generation Zero, a social gameplay experience in a historical setting. Generation Zero (Reality Twist, platform: browser PC/Mac) centres on young Emil, who returns to the destroyed city of Berlin and searches for his father there. Emil can master the complex challenges only by working together within a youth gang. Through a cinematic narrative style, players learn about the history of post-war Germany. FFF Bayern is funding prototype development of Generation Zero with EUR 78,000.
FFF is funding prototype development of Bernd das Brot und die Unmöglichen (bumm film, platform: browser PC/Mac) with EUR 59,000. In the point-and-click adventure, popular character Bernd das Brot lives in a villa with his friends Chili das Schaf and Briegel der Busch and must free himself from all kinds of predicaments.
FFF is funding three projects in concept development with EUR 20,000 each: Universe of Culture (Forty Games, platform: browser), a serious game in which players take on the role of an investigator in space and must find their way in the multicultural community of the space station. In Geheimakte 3 – Der Archimedes Code (Neos Film, platform: PC, Wii, Nintendo DS), the main characters are on the trail of the secret of the number pi, whose discovery will enable them to save the Earth. In Keep the sheep (Wolpertinger Games, platform: PC, XBLIG), players must bring a flock of sheep safely to the gate by giving them special abilities.
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