„Creating an Ink and Paper Adventure Game: A Five-Year Development Journey“
### The Five-Year Journey to Craft an Adventure Game from Ink and Paper **Image: John William Evelyn** --- “I couldn’t walk away from the pen and ink thing,” says John Evelyn, the visionary creator behind **The Collage Atlas**, a dreamlike storybook adventure that recently made its debut on Steam. What sets this game apart is that the entire world within it is meticulously hand-drawn, from the tiniest flowers and insects to massive buildings and the clouds that gracefully drift above them. As players explore this enchanting environment, they slowly uncover its surreal narrative, with the world dynamically transforming in response to their presence. “I had been drawing for many years before that […] and I’d always draw with ink straight away, without any kind of prior pencil work or sketching,”…