Cosmic Top Secret

An animated documentary game by Trine Laier.

COSMIC TOP SECRET is an autobiographical adventure video game about T. The player follows her journey to uncover the truth about her parents’ work with Danish Intelligence during the Cold War. What exactly was it that they did?

You control T on her uncertain journey into adulthood to uncover the truth about her parents and an atomic war that never happened but yet wounded a family.

Human relationship, history and secrecy mixed in a surreal reality come together as a complex gaming experience.

When T grew up, her mother and father always kept her safe. But in secret they were also keeping the whole country safe. T ’s parents were cold war warriors, clandestine operatives of the secret service arm of the Danish Army, fighting the Red Menace in a fantastic reality of double identities, top secret documents and coded signals. As true spies they kept their real identities hidden from the world. Even their own daughter. T was 39 years old before she stumbled upon the truth, and now she starts her own counter-espionage project, searching for the secret truth in her family history.

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Original title (Danish): Yderst Hemmeligt

Director: Trine Laier
Producer: Lise Saxtrup
Programmers: Sune Hede & Kristian Torgard
Game Designer: Mads Lyngvig Jespersen
Art & Level Designer/Developer: Jannik Faarvang Petersen
Copywriting, Translation & Testing: Clarissa Grace Chang
Additional Game Design: Gearworks & Jonatan Van Hove

QA & UX Manager: Mads Hagemann Nielsen
Technical Artist: Simon Engelbrecht & Jon Murray Vinther
Animation: Michael Bech Hussein & Catherine Beyer
3D Graphics: Faysal Fuad Khalil & Nicklas Kludt

Composer: Bjørn Svin
Sound: Anne Gry Friis Kristensen, Andreas Busk, Kristoffer Salting & Anders Børup

Photographer: Lis Dyre & Lise Saxtrup
Editor: Grete Møldrup & Nanna Nederlund

Dramaturg: Stine Skot

Manuscript: Mette Sø, Michael Valeur & Trine Laier
Research: Gökhan Kuvvetli

Producers assistent: Sofie Rørdam
2D Graphics and concepts: Io Helweg & Sabine Hviid
Graphic Design website: Andreas Kjærgaard / A

With the support of:
New Danish Screen, DFI
Danish Games Scheme, DFI
Danish Association of Animators
Nordic Game
The Creative Europe Programme – MEDIA of the European Union

Trine Laier, director with background in animation since 1991. Graduated from the Danish Film School in 2012 as film- and game director. On a daily basis Trine secures the user experience and defines the final expression of the productions.

2018

  • Sheffield Doc FestDigital Dozen, finalist in “Breakthrough Storytelling Award”

2017

  • IndieCade, “Culture Prize”IDFA “Doc Lab “Award for Digital Storytelling”Independent Games Festival
  • Finalist in “NUOVO”, honorable mentions in “Excellence in Narrative” & “Seumas McNally Grand Prize”
  • Future of StoryTelling, finalist in the Independent Games Category, “People’s Choice Awards”

 

2016

  • Won the main prize: “Most Amazing Game Award” at the 5th International Independent Videogames A MAZE Festival in Berlin

 

2015

 

2014

 

2013

  • Doc Leipzig panel, The Real Game!
Danish Press Kit
English Press Kit

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