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Fairy Tales have ancient origin

September 10th, 2009 by Auriea

Dr. Jamie Tehrani, studied 35 versions of Little Red Riding Hood from around the world.
Whilst the European version tells the story of a little girl who is tricked by a wolf masquerading as her grandmother, in the Chinese version a tiger replaces the wolf.
In Iran, where it would be considered odd for a young girl to roam alone, the story features a little boy.
Contrary to the view that the tale originated in France shortly before Charles Perrault produced the first written version in the 17th century, Dr Tehrani found that the varients shared a common ancestor dating back more than 2,600 years.
He said: “Over time these folk tales have been subtly changed and have evolved just like an biological organism. Because many of them were not written down until much later, they have been misremembered or reinvented through hundreds of generations.
“By looking at how these folk tales have spread and changed it tells us something about human psychology and what sort of things we find memorable.

Read more at Telegraph…

Directions for Red Ridinghoods

August 28th, 2009 by Michael

The Path to Grandmother's House?

Spotted along the highway in the North East of France.

USB stick Special Editions are back in stock!

August 24th, 2009 by Auriea

The USB versions of The Path twice sold out, now it’s time for Edition 3. Featuring Special Edition wallpapers for your computer, work in progress videos, unreleased demos, and of course The Path game itself.
You can buy the USB edition via our online store for Mac or PC.

The Path has been out 144 days

August 10th, 2009 by Michael

144 Days ago, The Path was released. Below is a graph of its sales.

The Path sales 144 days

The red line is PC sales from our own site, the blue line is Mac sales from our own site and the green line is sales on Steam.
The incredible spike on the right is last weekend’s “Top Indie Games” bundle. And even if our cut in those sales is a lot smaller, it’s still an amazing anniversary gift! :)

The Path 1.1 for Mac

August 6th, 2009 by Auriea

There is an upgrade available for The Path which fixes several reported issues and improves overall stability of the game.
These are the most important changes for the Mac version:

-fixed Raven visibility error
-Piano object is now available in the Forest if the Theater is not active
-New Game now resets Locators
-Load Game resets resolution saved with game
-game prefers video refresh rates of 60Hz
-additional options for setting resolution
-positions of objects with contexts are now consistent
-run speed is now consistent
-graffiti spray-painted on the Bunker is now visible

Mac users: good news, all you have to do is run the game and it should automatically update.

PC users: there is also an upgrade on the forum which resolves certain issues. Please see this forum thread for the download and other info. But you don’t need to upgrade if you are not experiencing any problems.

Steam users: you should also see an upgrade available.

Reference: car

July 21st, 2009 by Michael

Ruby's car
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Auriea was quite willful about which kind of car would be part of Ruby’s story. I never asked why. Must be something that happened in her former home of the United States of America, where these “muscle cars” were supposedly all the rage in the seventies.

Incidentally, this is one the objects in The Path that was modeled by the excellent team at Dragon-Fly Studio in Ukraine. Both the rusted and the wrecked version.

The Path of Carmen

July 4th, 2009 by Auriea

seeing this… just randomly found on youtube
I am thinking we should make some official videos giving away some of the secrets of Grandmother’s House.
I don’t think it will spoil it for those who want to play, and havent.
What do you think?

For myself, I rather like seeing it this way… makes me happy that someone liked it enough to upload it. All those videos on youtube… wow…. Of course… if you watch all the ‘related videos’ above… that’s another matter entirely ;)

I can’t hardly bear it :>

July 1st, 2009 by Auriea

The Red Girls re-imagined as adorably cute bears! :)
drawn by s.jane in her signature style.

fan art + cosplay

June 15th, 2009 by Auriea

robin2
nicely done Robin ipod touch painted fan art. by david müller.

rose
pretty Rose cosplay image from the forums. by forum user Santur.

The Hallway by Miranda July

June 14th, 2009 by Auriea

not about The Path… but it could be… ;)