Since May 1, a 100% 974 game entitled “Jack Barau” is available on PC (via Steam) and the Nitendo Switch (via Nitendoshop). It is a 2D platform-play platform game, both poetic, comical and committed.
Help Jack Barau, Pirate Pétrel, to save his species!
Browse the island looking for lost chicks. Each night, the artificial lights disorient Barau’s petrel babies, leaving them at the mercy of rats and wild cats that prowl. Form a fragile but hopeful farandole, and guide the little ones to the ocean, where they can finally fly to freedom.
Jack Barau is a 2D platform-platform game, both poetic, comical and committed. Inspired by a poignant ecological reality, it immerses you in the feathers of an old pirate with a tender heart, the last hope of a critical species of extinction.
– Check Jack with agility in various environments.
– Find the chicks and ensure their survival in a growing farandole.
-– Avoid predators and night dangers.
– Activate switches, trigger traps to your advantage.
– Explore a stylized universe, between humor, tenderness and environmental consciousness.
Designed to touch young and old
Jack Barau is such a family and sensitive adventure – a playful tribute to the real petrel of Barau, a rare bird of Reunion heights, and those who try to save him.
It was directed by Thierry Brochart and Rodolphe Bax, the game was first available on smartphone a few years ago. So he returns today to Switch and PC.
