A 16-bit adventure across Sarawak. Real places, real food, real memories, and one stolen Hornbill Heart.
You come home to Kuching after years away, and on your first morning back, a glowing hornbill feather chooses you. The Hornbill Heart that kept Sarawak safe has been stolen, and the land is starting to feel it.
Follow the feather from Kuching Waterfront to the far corners of Sarawak. Make friends, calm frightened spirits, solve old puzzles, bake kek lapis, row a sampan, and step back into places that only live in memory now.
The story is fiction. The places, food and memories are real.
It all started with one question: what if a hornbill's heart kept this land safe, and one stormy night it was stolen?
Home again, chosen by a feather
Every family has one
More courage than sense
Knows every old path
KL vlogger, still looking for treehouses
Means well. Mostly.
In this game you don't drink potions. You eat. Every healing item is a real Sarawak favourite.
Spicy, warming, unbeatable. Heals and powers up your attack.
Springy noodles tossed in shallot oil with char siu. Putih or merah?
Kampung Boyan's famous salted fish, fried crispy.
Layer cake grilled golden, layer by layer. Heals the whole party.
Bread toasted over charcoal, thick with kaya and butter.
Pulled through a cloth sock, served in a Hainan cup.
Crunchy jungle fern, fried with garlic.
Chicken and tapioca leaves cooked in bamboo over the fire.
Some places are gone. Pasar Cekor, the old Gambier Street wet market, was demolished in 2009. In the game, a feather's memory light brings it back: the fish hall, the vegetable stalls, and the kopitiam with bread toasted over charcoal and kopi in a Hainan cup.
Every chapter is set somewhere you can visit. Play the game, then go see the real thing.
Main Bazaar shophouses, hawker stalls and the river at golden hour.
Tua Pek Kong temple, Carpenter Street and India Street.
Cross the Darul Hana Bridge to the old fort on the north bank.
Jetties, sampans and layer after layer of kek lapis.
The gold roof and white arches, with puzzles on every floor (exhibits in the game are invented).
Semenggoh, Bau, Santubong, Bako, and on through all 12 divisions to Limbang and Lawas.
We're a small indie game studio from Sarawak. Terung asam is the little sour eggplant that makes our sour fish soup sing: a bit sour, a bit odd-looking, and 100% Sarawak. That's us.
Our first prototype was "Malaysia: Can U Survive Ah?", a side-scrolling satire about the everyday struggles we Malaysians go through. It got us thinking about home. Sarawak has so much culture and so many stories of its own, so now we're making a game about it.
We make games that are fiction, inspired by real things, and made with respect for Sarawak's many communities.
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