Careto
February 2023
A game based on a Portuguese northern folklore. CARETO is a single-player puzzle-platformer about a centuries-old Portuguese Carnival. Caretos are creatures of a mysterious Carnival from a village in the north of Portugal. It celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring. The game won Best Art Award for PlayStation® Talents Portugal 2020.
A game based on a Portuguese northern folklore. CARETO is a single-player puzzle-platformer about a centuries-old Portuguese Carnival. Caretos are creatures of a mysterious Carnival from a village in the north of Portugal. It celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring. The game won Best Art Award for PlayStation® Talents Portugal 2020.
Portuguese/English
Win; Mac; Android
mastudios.itch.io/careto
Win; Mac; Android
mastudios.itch.io/careto
CARETO is a game to collect, build and explore. It follows all the steps of Caretos' tradition: playing tricks, shaking their bells in the streets, collecting typical items and burning the wicker man.
The game was presented during Carnival of 2023 in Podence, Portugal. It was very special to be able to launch the project during Carnival in the village where Caretos are from, alonside them.
For the gameplay, the animations were made using Dragon Bones (a software for 2D animations and 2D rigging). For the cutscene and the main menu, the animations were made frame by frame with Photoshop and putted together using After Effects.
This tradition has a lot of energy and a lot of color. The village of Podence is very colorful with the colors of the Caretos and keeps the old typical houses made of schist. So, the goal was always to do something authentic - all the houses in the game exist in Podence. The landscape also has very beautiful colors, and the mist blends in with the hills. So I wanted the color to be a striking and playful element from the very beginning of prodution.
CARETO was presented during Carnival of 2023 in Podence, Portugal. It was very special to be able to launch the project during Carnival in the village where Caretos are from, alonside them.