Echoes Of Stella

Echoes of Stella

Futuregames Awards 2025 Nominee: Best Animation

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Echoes of Stella is a first-person, horror adventure game built around a unique echolocation mechanic. Trapped in the darkness, players must navigate a mirror world using echo to reveal their surroundings, but every noise risks drawing the attention of Stella, a corrupted reflection obsessed with keeping them trapped forever. To escape, players must explore, hide, and collect shattered mirror shards while uncovering the truth behind their identity.

Genre: Horror Adventure

Audience: Teens and Adults 16+

Platforms: PC, Consoles

Controls: Keyboard and Mouse, Console controllers.

Engine: Unreal Engine 5.5

Unique Selling Points:

• Risk-Reward Echolocation Mechanic

• Forces players to choose between vision and survival. This creates a tense push-pull: stay silent and blind, or make noise and reveal… both the path and the danger.

• Environmental Storytelling

• Narrative driven with cutscenes

Controls:

• Movement: WASD
• Echo: RMB or TAB
• Interact: LMB or F
• Sprint: SHIFT
• Crouch: CTRL

Modifications made for SGA:

• Things we worked on after GP3 ended.
• Added: Animation, gameplay balance, advanced AI's behaviors, minor changes in levels and sound improvement, option menu and UI optimization, and fixed majority of the bugs from Gold Master build. 

Team: 

Producer:

• Christian Edgar Carlos Babilon: PO/Scrumaster/Producer

Designers:

• Johan Rosenhed: 3Cs, Sound, Narrative, Support Designer
• Mark Klim: Interaction, Echolocation system,  Player camera, AI balance
• Arjun Kurapati: Technical, Level Designer
• Athena Tran: PO, Narrative, Game Designer
• Horm Assmann: AI and Systems Designer
• Ayotunde Ayoko: Level Designer

Programmers:

• Kenan Ege: Gameplay/UI/Performance Programmer
• Priyanshu Kaushik: AI /Sound/UI/Systems Programmer

UI/UX:

• Hugo Bekkewold Karlstöm: Lead UI/UX Designer

Artists:

• Eymen Müftüoğlu: 3D Environment Artist / Video Editor
• Selin Özcan: 3D Environment 

Animator:

• Mikael Hertzberg: animation

Sound:

• Johan Samuelsson

QA:

• Joakim Cerqueira

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