Mirrorfish Media Inc

Factsheet

Developer:
Mirrorfish Media Inc
Based in Brooklyn, New York

Founding date:
August 1, 2014

Website:
mirrorfishmedia.com

Press / Business contact:
mirrorfishmedia@gmail.com

Social:
twitter.com/mattmirrorfish
Skype

Releases:

Phone:
COMPANY_PHONE

Description

Insects don’t count time in years. The humans have been gone a long time. Their cities drown in salt, and their sky factories float dormant. Glowing butterflies flutter through snowy forests, hunting, searching for glowing pollen grains which mean survival, growth and change. The nano-bots released in man’s last desperate attempt to sequester atmospheric carbon run wild, assembling towering sky structures above the planet, futile monuments to a race which failed to adapt. Rapidly mutating, filling the niches of the poisoned environment, insects rule the earth.

Monarch Black is a video game being created by Matt Schell. People who have played it have compared it to both Nuclear Throne and Flower. Born and raised in New York City, Matt is an accomplished electronic musician who decided to pursue his dream of becoming an indie game developer. Work on the game happens at night after Matt finishes work as a Unity teacher and puts his two young sons to bed.

Things you can do in Monarch Black:

Become a laser shooting butterfly with full six degrees of movement freedom.

Collect and combine over 30 different weapons and upgrades to make every run unique including ricochet bullets, arc lightning, laser swords and missile firing helper bots.

Struggle against the worlds most realistic mutant laser butterfly AI. Enemies compete with you for resources, fight amongst each other, flock, swarm and flee.

Explore 12 procedurally generated distinct level environments including drowned cities, snowy forests, swamps filled with glowing mutant plants and a hole leading to the center of the earth.

Enjoy an original soundtrack composed for the game by Matt Shadetek (same Matt, formerly Warp Records / Dutty Artz).

History

Early history

Monarch Black is a labor of love by solo indie dev Matt Schell. After fifteen years as an electronic musician, including releasing on respected electronic labels like Warp Records and collaborating with artists including DJ /Rupture and Modeselektor as Matt Shadetek, Matt decided to take a chance and re-invent himself. Starting from scratch under the psuedonym Matt Mirrorfish he taught himself Unity, C# and game design using online tutorials. After two years of working nights on Monarch Black alone, he is getting ready to share the game with the world.

Projects

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Matt Mirrorfish
Game Designer, Programmer, Artist, Music

Contact

Inquiries
mirrorfishmedia@gmail.com

Twitter
twitter.com/mattmirrorfish

Web
mirrorfishmedia.com