Backbone (2021)
Platforms: Windows · Windows Apps · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series · Macintosh · Nintendo SwitchGenres: Genres · Adventure · Role-playing (RPG) · Side view · 2D scrolling · Graphic adventure · Puzzle elements · Direct control · Point and select · Fantasy
Backbone is a point-and-click adventure title borrowing some elements from role-playing games. Set in a dystopian vision of Vancouver, Canada, the player controls private investigator Howard Lotor. He is a raccoon and the whole cast consists of...
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Cast & Crew · 140 people
- Aleksandra Korabelnikova· Game Direction, Game Design, Lead Writing, Narrative Design, Business Development, Marketing, Social Media, Studio Administration, Russian Localization
- Ishani Birch· Production, Project Management, Studio Administration
- Maria Danshin· Concept Design, Concept Art, Video Editing, Location Scouting
- Nikita Danshin· Game Design, Programming, Music, Vocals, Sound Design, Business Development, Studio Administration, Original Music by, 'Coming Home', 'Rainy Streets', 'Not Your Usual Night', 'Endless February, Pt. 1', 'Abode', 'Public Disquiet', 'The Fall of Man', 'Seawall', 'Endless February, Pt. 2', 'Calling', 'Starling', 'Housing Supply', 'Grinding for Life', 'I Wonder', 'D.O.B.', 'There Go the Clouds', 'The Warmth of Parents' Hands', 'Screaming Lights', 'Not Trapped Yet', 'Of a Soul Withering in the House of Flesh', 'Stay with Me'
- Toma Klepnina· Level Design, Art Direction, Concept Art, Lighting, Character Design, Character Pixel Art, Environment Design, Environment Pixel Art
- Kristina Dashevskaya· Level Design, Concept Art, Character Design, Character Pixel Art, Environment Design, Environment Pixel Art, Graphic Design, Cinematics Design, Cinematics Animation
- Alexander Kolchin· UX/UI Design, Environment Pixel Art, Graphic Design, Motion Design, Video Editing
- Danny Salfield Wadeson· Narrative Design, Writing
- Maluly Martinez· Additional Writing
- Victoria Schafer· Additional Writing
- Aleksei Kozlov· Additional Writing
- Martin Hanses· Additional Writing
- Rareș Cinteză· Additional Writing
- Julia Migacheva· Concept Art, Character Design, Character Pixel Art, Environment Design, Environment Pixel Art
- Anastasia Prileptseva· Concept Art, Character Design, Character Pixel Art, Environment Design, Environment Pixel Art, Character Animation
- Radu Girjoaba· Tech Art, Lighting, VFX
- Kirill Simonenko· Character Design, Character Pixel Art, Character Animation, Environment Animation, Cut-scene Animation
- Antonina Shipulina· Environment Pixel Art, Character Animation, Environment Animation
- Mi Chang· Additional Environment Pixel Art
- Maria Romashko· Additional Environment Pixel Art
- Diana Stolyarova· Programming, Game Logic, UI Logic, Tools Development, QA
- Mikhail Klivekin· Additional Programming
- Alex Grade· Additional Programming
- Arooj Aftab· Music, Vocals, Sound Design, Original Music by, 'Clip UP and Let's Go', 'Post-Colonial Hangover', 'I Wonder', 'Beyond the Smoke Screen', 'Who Poisoned the Soup', 'D.O.B.', 'My Heart Feels Small Today', 'There Goes the Sun', 'The Warmth of Parents' Hands', 'Storming the Gate', 'To Be Changed', 'Stub My Cigarette Out on Your Tail'
- paul wilson· Quality Production, Raw Fury
- Alexander Preymak· Russian Localization, Translation
- Arina Bedrina· Russian Localization, Editing
- Lulu Chiba· Community Director, PR, Social Media
- Alex Penney· Music Mixing and Mastering
- Kellen Voyer· Legal Assistance
- Jónas Antonsson· Raw Fury
- Gina Tavarozzo· Raw Fury
- David Martínez· Raw Fury
- Antonio Santos· Raw Fury
- Daniel Jonsson· Raw Fury
- Vic Bassey· Raw Fury
- Roland Smedberg· Raw Fury
- Beckie Frary· Raw Fury
- Liam O'Neill· Raw Fury
- Mia Sun· Raw Fury
- Sven Farszky· Raw Fury
- Andreea Chifu· Raw Fury
- Garnett Lee· Raw Fury
- Kjartan Freyr Jónsson· Raw Fury
- Matejka Ivančić· Raw Fury
- Naseer Alkhouri· Raw Fury
- Ivan Krešimir Imbrija· Raw Fury
- Gerinda Meijerink· Raw Fury
- Julie Staub· Raw Fury
- Rachel Tiu· Raw Fury
- Carly Shields· Raw Fury
- Rasmus Liljenberg· Raw Fury
- Juliette Auverny-Bennetot· Raw Fury
- Johan Toresson· Raw Fury
- Íris Stefánsdóttir· Raw Fury
- Solveig Samuelsdottir· Raw Fury
- Tonći Jukić· Raw Fury
- Jeanette Bauer· Raw Fury
- Zeke Lugmair· Raw Fury
- Timothy Busby· Raw Fury
- Jacob Kroon· Raw Fury
- Cristian Caileanu· Raw Fury
- Dario Zubović· Raw Fury
- Martin Park· Raw Fury
- Tom Lindgren· Raw Fury
- Mea Nilimaa· Raw Fury
- Christopher Collins· Raw Fury
- François-Xavier Labescat· Raw Fury
- Ivan Gradečak· Raw Fury
- Andrija Zorić· Raw Fury
- Ana Balentović· Raw Fury
- Vladimir Kovač· Raw Fury
- Elena Christensen· Raw Fury
- Tomislav Gojević· Raw Fury
- Mai Dinh· Raw Fury
- Loke Wallmo· Raw Fury
- Marcus Herbertsson· Raw Fury
- David Pennelle· Raw Fury
- Domagoj Šalković· Raw Fury
- Elisabeth Bergqvist· Raw Fury
- Mirko Sršen· Raw Fury
- Borna Cmrečnjak· Raw Fury
- Angelica Norgren· Raw Fury
- Izet Seferagić· Raw Fury
- Erika Karlberg· Raw Fury
- Scott Roberts· Raw Fury
- Susie McBeth· Raw Fury
- Karl-Magnus Troedsson· Raw Fury
- Ivan Gabriel Juričić· Raw Fury
- Gordon Van Dyke· Raw Fury
- Nicole De Bernardi· Raw Fury
- Kristi Anderson· Raw Fury
- Luke Icenhower· Raw Fury
- Anna Bo· 'Abode'
- Manuel Schmieldel· 'Post-Colonial Hangover'
- Casimir Liberski· 'Post-Colonial Hangover', 'Beyond the Smoke Screen'
- Manuel Schmiedel· 'I Wonder', 'Beyond the Smoke Screen'
- Charlotte Greve· 'Of a Soul Withering in the House of Flesh'
- Bérangère Holweck· Localization Coordination
- Éric Holweck· Localization Coordination
- Jonathan Pierre· Localization Coordination
- Pierre Quelquejeu· Localization Coordination
- Daria Ostaeva· French
- Natalia Nesterova· French
- Ramón Méndez González· Spanish
- Alba Calvo Porrúa· Spanish
- Emilio Ros Casas· Spanish
- Francisco Molina Arcas· Spanish
- Judit Tur Cladera· Spanish
- Constanze Vogl· German
- Ulrich Onken· German
- Albert Wei· Chinese (Simplified)
- Cynthia Hsin-Hsuan Lin· Chinese (Simplified)
- Yiling Tang· Chinese (Simplified)
- Kakihara MasO· Chinese (Simplified), LQA
- Samuel Su· Chinese (Simplified)
- Lucy Wang· Chinese (Simplified)
- Saori Kagami· Japanese
- Iori Honda· Japanese
- Masaru Funahashi· Japanese
- Yasumasa Shibata· Japanese
- Jorge Guedes· Portuguese (Brazil)
- Egon Lessa· Portuguese (Brazil)
- Fábio A. Ludwig· Portuguese (Brazil)
- Thais Paiva· Portuguese (Brazil)
- Regiane Winarski· Portuguese (Brazil)
- Viviane Diniz· Portuguese (Brazil)
- Carolina Rodrigues· Portuguese (Brazil)
- Ewa Zielińska· Polish
- Krzysztof Karabin· Polish
- Andrzej Wróblewski· LQA
- Eriko Hayashi· LQA
- Ophélie Colin· LQA
- Iago Álvarez Graña· LQA
- Lorenz Hommers· LQA
- Fabrício Lockeh· LQA
- Volha Kapitonava· EggNut Localization Producer, Russian Localization
- Vanessa Afton· Community Testers
- Olga Vitchinkina· Community Testers
- Anastasia Lazareva· Community Testers
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