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All Rise channels Ace Attorney, Disco Elysium and Slay the Spire in a courtroom card battle to save the planet
09.02.2024 - 21:00 / rockpapershotgun.com / Disco Elysium
An upcoming game about taking planet-wrecking corporations to court hopes to go beyond its onscreen battles by raising money for real-life environmental aid. Behind All Rise is a team including both climate experts and top-notch games talent with credits spanning Horizon Forbidden West, Thirsty Suitors, League of Legends and Paradise Killer.
All Rise emerged from the legal efforts of Dutch climate activist group Fossielvrij - ‘Fossil Free’ - to get pension fund giant ABP to divest €15 billion from investment in fossil fuels. While preparing to raise support for its court case against ABP in 2021, Fossielvrij began to explore the idea of a video game about climate law as a way of generating wider interest in its campaign.
Ultimately the ABP case never reached the courtroom, as the company dropped its backing of fossil fuels in late 2021. Still, Fossielvrij stuck with the idea of making a video game inspired by the Ace Attorney series in which players could fight on the side of environmental campaigners, gathering a stacked team of indie and triple-A developers including Horizon Forbidden West producer Niels Monshouwer, 80 Days writer Meghna Jayanth and artists with credits across Thirsty Suitors, League of Legends and Paradise Killer. Joining them was sustainable fashion designer Meghna Nayak, whose use of reused fabric influenced characters’ outfits in the game, as well as a number of environmental researchers.
The result is a game that Fossielvrij’s Dr. Joost Vervoort describes as a combination of Phoenix Wright’s comic take on legal proceedings, Disco Elysium’s narrative world-building and Slay the Spire’s deckbuilding cardplay.
Gameplay involves the player assigning members of their team to different missions to obtain evidence and develop your case by gaining new cards for your deck, with the decision of who to send on what mission influencing which cards you’ll receive in return based on each combination.
Conversation both in and outside of the courtroom takes the form of card battles, with different cards and effects being able to target people’s sense of justice, empathy, logic or absurdity through different suits: gut, heart, mind and weird. Even losing a battle can result in a possible benefit, with the outcome of each battle earning a selection of different cards.
The cards gained through exploring the world and meeting with locals all then feed into a showdown in court, which can itself have a variety of possible endings depending on the choices made and cards played.
The game spans a number of chapters focused on different regions of the globe, albeit with what Vervoort said is a ‘sideways speculation’ rather than one-to-one reality to show what might be possible with different efforts.
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