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MDT, the team behind the award winning S.T.A.L.K.E.R. MISERY mod, present a seminal project taking the form of an interactive book and showcasing the gravity of choice. Your choice.

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Over the years and during our development of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. MISERY mod we have shared many development details and backstage insight. Not only because many gamers requested such insight but also because the final product undoubtly will benefit from doing so.

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We feel like doing the same here with The Seed and we hope that you will find an interest. And If not: don't worry - there will be plenty of Seed lore and gameplay revealed and shared during the Kickstarter campaign also.

Misery Development Ltd. are always on the lookout for abandoned
and ruined locations to gather footage for the game.

We use bi-podded Canon 550D with quality lenses for majority of our photos to ensure a high image resolution, that is more than sufficient to provide us with quality footage.

For The Seed we create ingame artwork in 2048x1536 pixels to fully support the high resolution of Retina Displays. But most artworks are designed in resolutions much higher than that.

Unedited, raw photos
Unedited, raw photos

As an international team composition we find ourselves extremely privileged with a treasure chest of locations right at our door step. Going location scouting in 8 different countries enables us to establish and design exactly the artwork compositions that we need to have the eastern setting be as captivating and interesting as humanly possible.

Even at this stage in development we have been able to gather photos from a good handful of countries including:
- Russia
- Poland
- Macedonia
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- Denmark
- Morocco
- Kosovo
(and we will be scouting for even more!)

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Image transformation

Every shot is heavily manipulated and visually refined for a specific purpose in the game. In The Seed some scenes are composed of 5 or more real life location shots.

Scout: Nicolai Aarøe, Misery Development Ltd.
Music credit: David Levy & Nina Geometrieva
Software: Adobe CS6 Master Collection
Destination: Copenhagen (DK)
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Camera man: Lasse Holmlund

Best regards
The Seed team

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Guest
Guest - - 690,452 comments

You should try Detroit, USA. Especially this time of year.
The radiation is manageable and the cold keeps the bandits indoor, mostly.

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Jetcutter
Jetcutter - - 755 comments

I was about to suggest that, rofl.

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bravocorp
bravocorp - - 182 comments

Go to Detroit:
Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline:
Content.time.com

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