Roller Drama Press Kit

open-lab.com/games/rollerdrama

Factsheet

Developer:
Open Lab Games
Based in Florence, Italy

Release date:
January 26th, 2023

Languages:
English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Japanese

Stores:
Steam (Win, Mac, Steam Deck), Nintendo Switch, Apple Store (iPhone, iPad), Google Play, XBox, Playstation PS4/PS5.

Website:
open-lab.com/games/rollerdrama

Press Contact:
games@open-lab.com

Business Contact:
games@open-lab.com

Social:
Twitter
Discord

Address:
Open Lab - Games
Via Venezia 18b
50121 Florence
Italy

Description

Roller Drama - "Performance is a mindset!"

Roller Drama is a story-driven sports and adventure game where you lead a team of five Roller Derby athletes with challenging personalities as their coach and hopefully friend. Manage full-contact matches on skates with a mix of strategy and real-time controls: team results and life debacles are all part of the story.

Genres: management, story-rich, adventure, strategy, real-time, choices-matter, sports, existentialist.

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Extended Description

In Roller Drama you (Joan) live together with five athletes as their coach and hopefully friend: Anne, Portia, Pippi, Cordelia, and Juliet. They just formed a Roller Derby top team!

Portia is the property “guardian”, the others (you too) just squatted in the dilapidated building. You have to try to be the balancing factor as these top athletes develop close personal relationships and the group navigates rivalries and love stories.

REAL-TIME FULL-CONTACT SPORT!
All this while playing Roller Derby-like full-contact matches, where in real time you have to give the right hints, decide strategies, and give orders. You’ll have arcade-like controls and power cards!

SURVEILLANCE
Daily life in the game’s world is not easy; political and environmental problems interfere with complex personal lives. The game’s universe is a slightly altered perspective of today’s world, with the same problems but... more explicit. It’s a dystopia that talks about our present (thank you Terry Gilliam).

Key features
- Interactive narrative with meaningful game-changing choices
- Explorable universe
- Replayable narrative and matches: every championship is unique, several different endings
- Real-time match play, fully generative
- Deck-building mechanics determined by player choices and game results
- Beautiful, hand drawn art
- Full controller support
- Localized in nine languages
- Cloud saves

Play this mix of story-driven and sports game where you lead a team of five Roller Derby athletes with challenging personalities. Manage full-contact matches on skates with a mix of strategy and real-time controls: team results and life debacles are all part of the story.


Videos

Roller Drama: Performance is a Mindset. A Roller Derby YouTube


Images & Gifs

download all screenshots as .zip (120MB)

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Team

Concept, production, game design, game writing, coding: Pietro "Punkard" Polsinelli @ppolsinelli

Artistic direction, graphic, animation, and audio design & programming: Giuseppe "Pino" Panzarella @pugusel

Character design: Vittoria "Vic" Macioci @Vic_Cricket_Mac

Narrative design and game writing: Verena Kyratzes @VerenaKyratzes

Music: Francesco Arcuri

Multiplatform test: Matteo Bicocchi @pupunzi, Laura Mirri

Main external tester: Daniele Ulivi @UliviDaniele

Thank you for concept feedback: Silvia Teodosi, Petar Madroview (Dabrowski!)

Thank you for testing feedback: Daniele Giardini, Petar Madroviev, Giacomo Sugni