User:Marjaana Auranen/Skábma - Snowfall

Skábma - Snowfall is an adventure game for PC and consoles inspired by old Sámi beliefs and stories developed by Red Stage Entertainment.

Games protagonist Áilu finds and old Noaidi drum and is pulled in the middle of events bigger that themself. The drum helps Áilu to re-connect with the nature and it's Spirits. Same time an odd disease begins to spread in the area. It affects everythign, plants, animals and people. As the drum holder and Noaidi-to-be, Áilu becomes the only one who can save everyone and stop the disease from spreading.

In game the drum is used to reveal the player a world that is otherwise unseen and hidden: nature's and human spirits and premonitions. Along the journey Áilu will find Familiar Spirits who lend their powers to them. With the help of these powers the player can proceed into new areas, platform in the area, solve puzzles and affect the sickess spreading across the land.

Skábma's pilot won the People´s Choice Award in Nordic Game Discovery Contest 2019. In 2023 Skábma won Finnish Game Awards Best Creative Achievement award and in Nordic Game gala the Best Art and Nordic Game of the Year awards.

https://nordicgame.com/ngdc-season-iii-finals-awards/

https://nordicgame.com/

http://www.redstage.fi/

https://www.skabma.com/

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11386735