Eden: The Game available to download for free this week

21 July 2016

What if we could start again? Soon, everyone can find out for themselves in this, the official gaming app of the series, where players are responsible for their own virtual community. The game, which goes live on 21st July will be available to download for free for phones and tablets from the Apple, Google Play and Amazon AppStores. Keep the campfire burning brightly to keep the community's morale up!

Players must build and grow a camp for their community in a digital representation of the same remote area as the series is set, sourcing the materials needed to expand the camp, prioritising which buildings to construct next, and finding where the next community meal is coming from.

Watch the trailer for the game here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTw_n_5q_6w

The camp can be expanded and customised to make it feels as homely as possible for the community, and players must tend to the camp animals, and manage the community's supplies, in order to help the camp survive the harsh Scottish weather and ultimately attract new members of the community to help it thrive.

Colin Macdonald, Commissioning Editor for Games at Channel 4 and Head of All 4 Games, said “Eden is such an ambitious and iconic undertaking for the channel, it was an obvious choice for a game to enable viewers to enjoy their own Eden in between episodes of the show. The challenges of kicking off a game for a series that hadn't started being filmed can't be understated, and I've been hugely impressed with the diligence and flexibility that developer Strawdog Studios have approached this. And I look forward to hearing what directions everyone takes their own Eden community in!"

The Eden game has been created for Channel 4 by Derby based developer Strawdog, a BAFTA and Develop award nominated independent game developer of fun social and mobile games.

The game is available for download from the iOS AppStore, the Google Play store and Amazon from Thursday the 21st July:

iOS; https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eden-the-game/id1116980952?ls=1&mt=8

Google Play; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.channel4.eden

Amazon; http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=com.channel4.eden

NB: Please include the link for the gaming app in any published reference to the game or Eden.

To review the game exclusively before its release, please email: cmacdonald@channel4.co.uk.

 

For more information on Eden: The Game as well as the latest game assets, please visit the All 4 Games press vault; https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dkznmvhi7woykjq/AAA9bRNpLp3xa4XmHWL5dAbra?dl=0

 

About All 4 Games

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