Concerning PC later on this year.
Image credit: Inkle
After flinging itself around the Scottish hills in A Highland Song and doing an area of linguistic archaeology in Heaven’s Vault, designer Inkle has actually revealed it’ll quickly be venturing to 1922 where a secret is waiting to be fixed at Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls.
Inkle hasn’t precisely discussed what its School for Promising Girls is right now, however there are ideas to be discovered over on Steam, where the designer has actually tagged the video game’s freshly appeared shop listing with the labels, “Investigation”, “Interactive Fiction”, “Comic Book”, and “2D”.
Whatever else shared up until now is strongly in-universe, with Inkle having actually changed a more useful Steam description with a leaflet promoting the titular school. “The finest education the 1920s need to use!,” it happily declares, before including, “We use tuition in Latin, Geometry, and a vast array of group sports, all within the lovely setting of our separated nation estate.”
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“One scholarship location is offered to an appealing prospect [from] a lower-class background,” it continues. “Further information of the curriculum will be revealed later on this year.”
Which’s nearly your lot. Cast your eyes up on Steam and you’ll identify that, rather of screenshots, Inkle has actually submitted numerous pages from the School for Promising Girls’ prospectus. It’s an enjoyable little bit of world-building, covering whatever from the school’s history to its sports curriculum – and likewise of note is the last image, which slyly consists of somebody being up to their obvious doom, having actually smashed through the school’s well-known Rose Window. A secret!
Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls releases on Steam later on this year, and Inkle states it’s likewise targeting a Switch and iOS release eventually “in the future”. We’re large fans of the studio’s genre-hopping narrative experiences here at Eurogamer, so ideally Inkle will not leave us waiting too long to hear more.
