project tempest
TALES OF LIFE, MURDER, AND MADNESS
Welcome to the end of the earth.
Tempest Bay is a charming New Zealand town where the Old Ways still hold. People come here to feel alive again. But the price can be high...
Tempest Bay exists in novellas, podcasts, and interactive experiences.
We’re building it one step at a time as an indie studio.
If you’re on your own strange journey, with a taste for folk horror, welcome.
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A turbulent friendship falls apart amid secrets, betrayal, and horror.
Tempest Bay, 1910. A south seas smuggling town where misfits of all kinds live with vivid intensity. But when a storm brings a distress call from the ocean deep, terrors emerge... [learn more]
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Tempest Bay is a fictional setting for stories about obsessive people navigating the borderland between civilisation and madness.
It's also a place for creators of all kinds to play.
The Project Tempest Workbench contains source material including a world guide, map, inspirations, concept art, original music, and reference images… [learn more]
Shortlisted for the 2020 Shirley Jackson Award
Rediscover yourself in a time of madness.
Her Mad Song imagines a world on the cusp of emotional climate change: a profound shift in how our inner lives connect to the places around us... [learn more]
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"… hauntingly lyrical and delightfully strange .... highly original in tone, concept, and execution .... visceral and evocative imagery."
- Booklife Prize (Publisher's Weekly)
Finalist in the 2019-20 Australasian Horror Awards
read '1862'