''Ceremony of Innocence'' is a

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-based game released in 1997. It used a mystery narrative based on the '' Griffin and Sabine'' novel by

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. The title was taken from the poem " The Second Coming" by Irish poet

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Plot

''Ceremony of Innocence'' has an elaborate mystery game format to tell the story of Griffin, a young English artist, and Sabine, a woman from a (fictional) South Sea Island. The game takes the form of a series of postcards sent between the two, which the player must explore to continue.

Development

The work was produced by Peter Gabriel's Real World label by a team led by producer Gerrie Villon and creative director/chief designer Alex Mayhew. Joining them was a team of internationally renowned artists specialising in 3D character models, clay-modelling, precision metalwork, pastel painting, and pencil drawings, plus

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; among them were Joan Ashworth, Ruth Lingford, Bedric Glaser, Jeff de Boer, and Jonathan Hodgson. Over 100 different artists, animators and musicians involved in the game's production. The core team of animators were from Realworld Multimedia. Dan Blore, Brian Short and Karolyn Pike, all of whom had previously worked on Peter Gabriel's ''EVE'' CD-ROM, joined forces with Realworld's programmers Michael Dean, Darren Umney, Sam Deane, Matt Thurling, Peter Fierlinger,

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, Chris Wright, Sam Clegg, Andy Lovelock, David Bateman and Robert Mettler. The game features voice acting by

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and

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Reception

''Ceremony of Innocence'' was awarded the EUROPRIX 98 Overall Winner, and two

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s in 1998 for Best Moving Image and Best Sound.

References

External links

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