Meet Horace Oinkstein, a gentlepig and a protagonist of an upcoming indie adventure game PIGSODUS. He will need help on a mission to free his animal friends from a sadistic farmer Theodore Cleaver. In this fun way the Psylocibe Games, the team responsible for the project, wants to draw public attention to a problem much more important – animal rights.

PIGSODUS idea hatched in the heads of Piotr Lipert and Sawa Bialczynska (the founders of Psylocibe Games), when they watched a short movie on Youtube, featuring a desperate pig trying to get out of a lorry on its way to a slaughterhouse. This inspired a project with a mission of showing the public how insensitive mankind is towards animals. To achieve this Piotr and Sawa invite us on a journey through an alternative reality in which the animals are equally intelligent and equally emotional as humans.

The game itself is designed as a point and click, adventure RPG with a compelling, non-linear story and beautiful pixel-art graphics, which you can admire here (all graphics are created by Sawa Bialczynska). All the locations, landscapes and characters are bound by a fast-paced story full of dark humour and witty dialogues. The team strives to make the game as attractive as possible knowing its popularity needs to convey the message. As the theme is serious, the game will be tergeted to an adult audience and will contain strong language and graphic violence.

What’s most important about this project is its potential appeal to the public and a chance to increase pressure on the meat industry to change their ways of treating animals. The Psylocibe Games team believe stopping cruelty to animals is a cause worth fighting for and although they know it would be naive to think a game can change the world, it is possible it could sway a few people and make a few animal lives better.

PIGSODUS is an independent production, which means it will be financed, produced and distributed by Psylocibe Games themselves. Therefore the project will be crowdfunded on Kickstarter and you will be able to preorder the game there. For now you can visit the PIGSODUS website, join the fanpage on FB or tweet about the project to let your friends know about it. All support is greatly appreciated.