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There’s an Animal Farm Game Based on George Orwell’s Novel in the Works

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George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm is being reborn in the form of a video game, with an independent team looking to bring the title to fruition. It’s a strange decision, but an interesting one, considering the source material. Like the novel, it will follow Manor Farm’s unsettling narrative as the farm spirals into madness (and communism, in this form of social satire) and the barnyard animals find themselves dealing with a power struggle like they’ve never seen before.

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The Animal Farm adaptation is being given two parts: one that plays out like a typical adventure game, and another part that’s more in tune with the “tycoon” genre, where players will have to make difficult choices and power moves to keep the farm in check. It sounds like it could definitely work, but the specifics of course remain to be seen.

Members of the project include Imre Jele from RuneScape, George Baker from Fable, Kate Saxon from The Witcher 3, Jessica Curry from Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, and Andy Payne rom Gambitious, each member with their own personal responsibility when it comes to adapting the novel to a new video game format.

Currently, the team has yet to announce platforms or any projected release date for when we could potentially try it out, but more information will be trickling out over the next year or so. Giving something like this time to brew will hopefully mean quality storytelling and an engaging game to frame it all out with. It’s certainly a timely story that will mean much to anyone who plays it, and hopefully it’ll get younger players to read the original, too.

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Brittany Vincent

Brittany Vincent is the former News Editor at Twinfinite who covered all the video games industry's goings on between June 2017 and August 2018. She's been covering video games, anime and tech for over a decade for publications like Otaku USA, G4, Maxim, Engadget, Playboy and more. Fueled by horror, rainbow-sugar-pixel-rushes, and video games, she’s a freelancer who survives on surrealism and ultraviolence. When she’s not writing, watching anime or gaming, she’s searching for the perfect successor to visual novel Saya no Uta.

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