I remember this scene vividly in the movie, and as a child it was a scary thing to watch. Mixed with the calming music, it really sets the tone and emotions of Mick and his playfulness and adventuring spirit.Īs you progress through the story, a great storm hits the coast and a boat is sinking offshore with people on board waving for help. From the playful beach scenes to the underwater scenes as pictured below showing some nice Pink Snapper, to the dark stormy scenes towards the end of the game. The artwork of all these scenes is just beautiful, to put it simply, and reflects the Australian coastline really well. These mini-games are designed to put you into the mind of Mick as he daydreams or plays with Mr Percival. Later, you can draw images on the sand with a stick, dive off a raft to explore the water and toss a ball whilst Mr Percival retrieves it for you. Others are collecting shells on a beach or feeding the pelicans some fish. Some are simply just flying along the beach as an ibis for as long as you like. As you move along the beach the story’s key plot points are told and you are cleverly put into the life and mind of Mick.Įventually you will come across mini-game icons as pictured above, and these are not your ordinary difficulty-based mini-games. The music is gentle and calming throughout majority of the game, and really sets the tone as a playful and chilled game. If the text disappears too fast you can just run back a bit and it’ll display again. The game is played by moving Storm Boy right across the screen and narrative story elements of that scene are displayed. The two are inseparable and so they play on the beach, in sand dunes and out on the ocean on a raft Mick has made. Two of them don’t return however Mr Percival returns to Mick and they form an attachment like a child would to a cat or a dog. Mick reluctantly agrees, and they set them free. They find three baby pelicans, so Storm Boy takes them home to raise and names them Mr Proud, Mr Ponder and Mr Percival.Īs the pelicans grow, their food requirements eventually become too much, and Tom insists the pelicans must be released back into the wild. One day some local duck hunters are shooting ducks and on this day, they shot a pelican which Fingerbone remarks that killing a pelican will bring on a great storm. Whilst exploring, Mick meets an Aboriginal loner named Fingerbone who gives Mick the nickname Storm Boy and Tom’s nickname becomes Hide-Away. Mick is an inquisitive boy being taught everything by his father, who resents any form of intrusion on their secluded lifestyle, right down to being annoyed at rubbish that washes up in the sanctuary they live next to and on the beach. They live in a corrugated iron shed right on the beach and survive off the fish that Tom catches. Storm Boy is a story about a 10-year old boy name Mick who lives with his father Tom on a beach in South Australia.
As such, I am very fond of the story of Storm Boy. Mum and Dad had also recorded Storm Boy and Blue Fin on VHS tapes, so these movies along with Star Wars were watched religiously every school holidays. I liked reading books and Storm Boy, along with another of Thiele’s books Blue Fin, were amongst my favourites.
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If you can bear the old-school quality, here’s a brief trailer of the original movie to set the scene.Īs a child we didn’t have any form of gaming console or PC for those early childhood years until the late 80’s, so the only form of interaction before then was reading books, watching the old TV’s that you had to get up and press the buttons to change the channel, or play outside with my sisters and the next-door neighbours. When I first heard this game was in development, I was instantly taken back to my childhood and watching the 1976 movie adaptation of the book. Storm Boy the game was released on Novemfor all platforms, developed and published by Blowfish Studios. Storm Boy is an interactive adventure game retelling the classic 1964 children’s book written by Australian author Colin Thiele.
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