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The Journey to Wild Divine, A Crazy Multimedia Project - PC

18th September 2003, 6:40pm
Startup technology innovator, game developer and music label The Wild Divine Project has announced it will release The Journey to Wild Divine for PC and Mac computers. The Wild Divine Project produces transformational multi-media products and their first product The Journey to Wild Divine is an interactive multimedia adventure that integrates the power of a healing journey with innovative human-computer technology to help cultivate an enhance sense of self and soul-awareness.

While traditional gaming relies on the user's reaction to; and interaction with the gaming environment, The Wild Divine starts on the inside. First, players hook themselves up to a biofeedback module which measures heart rate and other functions. Following a training session where guides familiarise users with the interface and the types of mind/body exercises they will need to master to navigate, players explore a lush fantastic world of challenges, adventures and other experiences.

The Wild Divine is both a healing journey and exhilarating adventure. PHD Biomedical Engineer Kurt Smith and Animator/Developer Corwin Bell and their development team located in Eldorado Canyon, have created a deeply detailed, lush world that will reward gamers with hours of pleasure. Playing the game also reduces stress, centers the mind and calms the body. Benefits may extend well beyond the playing experience as the game shows promise as a therapeutic tool and a focusing exercise for business-people.

"I've always wanted to experience the amazing things that wizards, sages and mystics experience in movies I've seen, books I've read and dreams I've had," says Bell, who met Smith while rock climbing. "In The Journey to Wild Divine, users can actually experience mythological images and states of being; the game is cast in a way that it looks and feels like magic, but it's all working within the psyche."

"The journey that Corwin has developed is very profound," Smith says. "All his life, he's been churning on it and working on it. When you combine his spirituality with graphics capabilities, the artistry is mind-blowing. I've seen people sit down with it and have transforming experiences."

In addition to Bell, Smith and the development team, who work in a game studio Smith built in the canyon, other individuals have served as what they call "allies" to the project, including biofeedback specialist Dr. Liana Mattulich, former Buddhist monk Nawang Khechog, one of Tibet's foremost world musicians and composers, Dr. Jean Houston, a world renowned researcher in the development of human capacities and Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, Inner Peace for Busy People and other books on health, well-being and spirituality. Smith recorded the music for the game in his own studio, the Crucible, and it features Wild Divine recording artists The Wild Divine Band as well as Chris Berry.

They say to make a good game then you have to create something new and fresh, well I've never seen such a creative and new idea. It will be interesting to see if it sells or people dismiss it as a "gimmick".
by Benjamin Murphy