Characters based on Kickstarter backers

It’s about time we started sharing some of our backer based characters! It’s been a really fun and challenging experience writing different people into the story of Ira while staying as true to the Kickstarter as possible. Some of you sent us some detailed descriptions of your life and we found them to be inspiring in or work. Ira's story and characters are literally defined by the people who helped make it a reality. We might be the first Kickstarter to do such a thing in such an in depth way! So thank you all. Anyway, without further ado we want to introduce you to Johannes West. One of the original scientists, idealists, and founders of the Azimuth trading company. Before his mysterious disappearance he was working on a classified project named, The Black Iris. What happened to Johannes, and where did he go? Well, you’ll have to play to find out.

Some of the characters have minor changes to fit the story or aesthetic of the game. That being said your likeness are definitely there, but stylized in the Ira universe as expected. In this case Johannes will have round glasses, and a slightly different position in the Ira-verse.

So how did we do this? Well, we used a machine learning algorithm that extracts peoples faces from photos and generates a 3D mesh that’s then used to model the rest of your head. It’s wild. What this means is that the underlying structure of every character is using your actual face...Kind of cool right?

Alright, that's it for this update! We are trucking along doing our best to get things wrapped up, and we look forward to sharing more of the game really soon. Until next time folks!