Interview: Heileen And The Rise (?) Of The Western Visual Novel

Now, here’s something interesting. In the raft of press releases we get sent here at GSW, we came across Heileen, created by the folks at Tycoon Games.
It’s, intriguingly enough, a PC indie title that’s a “historical-fiction visual novel game with multiple endings”, and the release for it has Tycoon’s Riva Celso insisting: “Visual novels are the next wave of interactive fiction games. They’re like a hybrid of books and games - they’re deeper than the average video game since they’re narrative-based, and they’re interactive; what the player does affects the story and ultimately the outcome.”
The game, for which there’s PC, Mac and Linux demos available, and 4500 screens of dialog, 8 chapters and 3 different endings, “…tells the tale of a young girl from the 17th Century, Heileen. Her merchant uncle leaving her no choice, she undertakes a voyage to the New World. She’ll meet old friends, like […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back