The surreal aesthetic is captured well by Leavitt in the novel. There are also many illustrators and sculptors, including Chang Yuan, Stefan Kopinski, D.Rock-Art Studio and NWA Studio featured in the art book, that brought the world to life. With Shattered Seas Leavitt extends the world created by the Diemension Game team (with designers Roger Ho, Cherry Li, Chauncey, and Yichuan Wang) to whom Byron dedicated the book… in addition to the KS backers). Byron Leavitt injected loads of narrative into the game, so Kadath and all its many inhabitants have curious backstories and strange intentions. The cover features Lucas Kane (Christopher Shy artist)ĭeep Madness was Diemension Games’ first title and raised over $4 million USD across two Kickstarter campaigns (from ~2018-2020).
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At the end of this article, there is an embedded movie overviewing the board game.
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Non-gamers will enjoy it all the same since the key protagonists (Lucas Kane and Connor Durham) are freshly introduced, plus the story is a prequel to the story presented in the game. The novel serves as a stand-alone book as much as it does a gateway into the game narrative.
This novel was inspired by Diemension Games’ Deep Madness, a cooperative sci-fi/horror board game. He could even see the primary enclosed drilling site not far off from the main facility, connected to Dome Three by long, spacious tubes. Lucas could make out the shuttle tubes running between the three main domes, as well as to the smaller, squarer outposts and middle structures. It was hypnotic, dreamlike, and yet somehow inexplicably solid. The station’s domes and towers seemed like the last bastions of light and reason still standing in an endless Stygian wasteland. The facility sprawled across the seabed like a sunken metropolis from another world, its illuminated structures pushing defiantly upward into the inky abyss. Kadath lit up below them drew his attention and caught his breath. Here he observes Kadath, a mining facility with organic qualities (excerpt): Will you be comfortable with mutating forces transforming you into a tentacled mass? Start the madness by searching for the mystical Sphere buried in the ocean near the submerged Kadath Mining facility. Lucas Kane, a marine biologist, is one of your tour guides. It’s a maelstrom of fun if you enjoy horror adventure, losing your mind, and drowning.Įver want to crack open the gateway into an Otherworld with a few friends? Perhaps you are ambitious and naively want to gain dominion of cosmic powers. Shattered Seas is a toxic dose of Lovecraftian mythos, psychedelic team-exploration (reminiscent of Star Trek voyages), and survival-horror melee (mutant creatures replacing zombies).
Cover art by Christopher Shy / Cover design by Byron Leavitt.
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