Short description
A chubby pangolin rolls, climbs and licks his way through a tree the size of a continent to win back the amber a colony of termites has stolen, while the soundtrack reacts to every move.
Long description
Ambo and the Great Tree is a side-scrolling platformer in the spirit of the 1990s classics, with 3D characters on a 2D path. It was designed from the music outwards. Each world started as a sound palette and only then became a place.
The soundtrack is built in layers that the game turns on and off. When Ambo curls into a ball his scales sound like a shaker and a percussion layer joins the song. Mushrooms play notes when he lands on them, the jungle moves on the beat, and when he takes a hit his friend Mica sings his motif from a perch until he picks her up.
The Termite Queen has emptied the Hollow of the Roots and plans to turn the tree into the biggest termite mound in the world. Ambo is a pangolin, and pangolins eat termites. With Mica on his back he follows the trail of amber from the roots to the crown.
Features
- Adaptive music in layers. Rolling, riding and hidden rooms each bring in their own part of the song.
- Six worlds of five levels and a boss each, plus a secret world.
- A soundtrack of 58 tracks with three themes that run through the whole game.
- Two characters in one. Ambo rolls and breaks things, Mica glides and reaches what he cannot.
How it is made
Xavier Mas Leszkiewicz is a music producer. He composes the soundtrack and designs the game around it. The concept art and the first 3D models of the characters started from image and 3D generation tools (Gemini and Meshy). They were then rigged and animated in Blender and put into the game in Unity. They are a starting point for the art, not the final version.
Images
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Using the game in videos
You may record, stream and monetise videos of the game, and use its music in videos about it. That does not count as commercial use under the licence. For any other commercial use, please get in touch.