OASIS: Project Alchemy

About the project

A young alchemist.
A world waiting to be understood.

OASIS: Project Alchemy is a first-person fantasy ActionRPG set in Atror. You begin as a young, inexperienced alchemist, discovering a world where understanding what things are made of can be as important as knowing how to fight.

Exploration, action role-playing and dungeon crawling sit alongside crafting and transformation. Alchemy connects these parts of the adventure: what you discover in the world can change what you understand about its materials.

Look beyond the surface

Atror is conceived as a composition of connected parts. Objects are made from other objects, opening up ways to take things apart, recover what they contain and assemble something new. Crafting grows from understanding those relationships.

The aim is to make curiosity useful. A discovered object is more than its outward form: its composition can become the beginning of another experiment, another creation or another way to approach the world around you.

Alchemy through experimentation

Alchemy draws on both real and fictional reactions between chemical elements. Learning how materials interact, trying combinations and discovering useful results form a central part of the experience we are developing.

You enter that experience as a beginner. The appeal is in learning to recognise possibilities: observing what you find, thinking about what can be combined, and connecting those discoveries with crafting and adventure.

A fantasy RPG from the first-person perspective

Dungeon exploration and action bring danger into the journey. Crafting and alchemy add another layer of attention to it. We are developing a fantasy role-playing experience in which exploration, danger and experimentation give one another purpose.

The project is in development for PC. Public demonstrations and release information will be shared as they are ready.

Project Alchemy is also one of the games where we use and refine UCSystem, bringing the practical needs of a game back into our tool development.

Discovery is part of the craft

The central idea connects what the alchemist finds with what he can make. Objects in Atror are composed of other objects: taking something apart reveals components, while assembly turns components into something else. Exploration and crafting belong to the same journey, rather than separate lists of activities.

Alchemy adds another way to understand those discoveries. Reactions draw on both real and invented chemical elements and interactions, giving the fantasy world its own possibilities. The aim is to make experimentation part of playing an alchemist, with knowledge of materials becoming useful beyond the workbench.

A beginner in a larger world

The protagonist begins as a young, inexperienced alchemist. First-person exploration keeps the experience close to the character, while ActionRPG combat and dungeon-crawling elements bring danger and discovery into the same adventure.

We are developing the relationship between these parts of the game: exploring Atror, understanding what is found there and using that understanding through crafting and alchemy. Public materials will explain individual systems in more detail as they become ready to demonstrate.