He must figure out the truths about his wife, who this police officer is and what he wants, and how he can escape this loop. It becomes clear that he is stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop as soon as ten minutes pass, he is knocked out or dies, or he attempts to leave the apartment, he's immediately rewound back to the start of the loop, and no one but him seems wise to it. He enters their home disaster ensues, and once it gets bad enough, the husband suddenly finds himself at the entrance to the apartment just when he entered. They are interrupted by the arrival of a man claiming to be a police officer. Twelve Minutes is a top-down interactive Thriller Point-and-Click Game developed by Luis Antonio and published by Annapurna Interactive about a man stuck in a ten-minute time loop.Ī husband, the playable character, returns from work to his apartment to have a nice evening with his wife. Says McAvoy, “You get the opportunity as a video game player to make perverse choices, to make morally ambiguous choices - choices you would never make in real life.”Īnnapurna Pictures formed the games division in 2016. Annapurna Interactive’s games portfolio includes Sam Barlow’s “Telling Lies,” “Outer Wilds,” “Sayonara Wild Hearts,” “Florence,” “Gorogoa,” “Donut County,” “Maquette” and “What Remains of Edith Finch.” Upcoming titles include “Twelve Minutes,” “The Artful Escape,” “Solar Ash,” “A Memoir Blue,” “Hindsight,” “Neon White,” “Storyteller,” “Skin Deep” and “Stray.These are gonna be the longest twelve minutes of this man's life. During the pandemic, McAvoy says he’s played a bunch of “Call of Duty: Warzone” with his mates (“It’s been a godsend, really”).
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His favorite titles include “The Legend of Zelda” series (he called out “Ocarina of Time”), “Secret of Mana,” “Wing Commander” and “FIFA” soccer. It was actually enjoyable to let this script sing for itself 99% of the time, you know?” “You’re really only ad-libbing when it’s not written well. That said, McAvoy was impressed at how tight the script was. “We were throwing these situations at the characters, and some solutions that came up made more sense than when I wrote it in a vacuum,” he says.
The specific difference with the “Twelve Minutes” game, McAvoy says, was that “every time I walk into a room, I’ve then got to do a thousand different alternatives - where I make a slightly different choice or a massively different fatal choice.” Instead of shooting a few takes of a scene, “This was like 100 different takes before you move on.”Īntonio said because of the numerous “Twelve Minutes” narrative strands, he revisited the story arcs after recording batches of the script to make tweaks. His credits here include “Gnomeo & Juliet” and “Arthur Christmas.” He also stars in the Audible original series “The Sandman” as Morpheus Season 2 is set to debut next month and Audible has greenlit a third installment. McAvoy says that recording “Twelve Minutes” was, on a certain level, similar to voice work for animated films. There’s not a generic ending that wraps up the story and you leave the game.” “The game itself is about repetition and being stuck in a loop. “It’s not a linear medium where you get to the last page, and the story’s over,” Antonio says. The sweat was given gladly because the material was good.”Īntonio, a gaming industry vet who has worked at Rockstar Games and Ubisoft, wouldn’t reveal how many branching paths are possible in “Twelve Minutes.” Adding to the complexity: The characters in the game eventually become aware that they’re stuck in a “Groundhog Day” loop, which presents new choices when the scene replays itself. The hardest work, the truly tiresome work, is when the material is not good.
Recording the lines for hundreds of different outcomes took four different sessions over several months.
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19 by Annapurna Interactive, the gaming division of Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, available for PC via Steam and the Windows Store, and on Microsoft Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. “Twelve Minutes” is set to be released Aug. (Spoiler alert: Some choices lead to the death of McAvoy’s character.) Players take an active role in the narrative to help solve the mystery. The characters in the game are nameless, and we never see their faces: McAvoy voices “the man” whose romantic evening with his wife (Ridley) is interrupted by an intruder (Dafoe) accusing them of a heinous crime - claiming the woman killed her father eight years ago.
“Twelve Minutes,” co-starring Daisy Ridley and Willem Dafoe, is set in a couple’s apartment and shows an overhead view of the action.
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