Return to the sprawling mystery of Half Mermaid’s BAFTA Award-winning IMMORTALITY in IMMORTALITY: Design Works. Featuring the game’s unabridged script alongside behind-the-scenes essays and interviews written by EDGE Magazine’s Chris Schilling, lose yourself in this definitive exploration of Marissa Marcel’s genre-defining story.
From narrative and theme to its production history and influence, discover the nuance of IMMORTALITY across nearly 600 pages. But not is all as it seems — IMMORTALITY: Design Works hides secrets to unravel.
In 2022, Half Mermaid released IMMORTALITY — a towering voyage into a complex world of cinema. Building upon film canon and games history alike, players became enmeshed in an experimental and mature approach to games storytelling. This provocative mystery about Marissa Marcel, a rising film star who tragically disappeared, captured the attention of the industry at large. With ten hours of live-action footage to explore across three in-game films, IMMORTALITY proved to be a genre-defining follow-up to Her Story and Telling Lies, garnering incredibly high praise including the BAFTA Award for Best Narrative.
Volume
IMMORTALITY
Works
Design.Works
Specification
Hardcover book
210 x 265 mm
550+ pages.
Section sewn binding
Author: Chris Schilling
Deluxe Edition
Hardcover book
300 Units
Campaign Limited Edition
Signed By Sam Barlow
Archival Box
2 Continuity Polaroids signed by Manon Gage (Marissa Marcel), and Ty Molbak (Carl Greenwood).
3 Ticket stubs
Newspaper clipping
3 Linear Scripts
Police report
Exclusive Soundtrack cassette
3 Folded Replica Posters
Release Date
Shipping Q4 2024
The complete works of the IMMORTALITY Design Works & Sounds Across Time Music Collection
The Book
Printed on three paper stocks and nearly 600 pages, IMMORTALITY: Design Works is definitive and uncompromising. Read through the game’s entire script, broken up by film stills and behind-the-scenes photos, as well as long-form writing from EDGE Magazine’s Chris Schilling. Enjoy a meticulously told oral history of the game’s creation as well as unique essays which explore various dimensions of IMMORTALITY — from its inspiration to its sound design and more.
The book also contains design quirks unlike any you’ve seen before. Between thermo-reactive ink that responds to the heat of your hands and a hidden, French-folded image, experience a uniquely interactive reading experience that will bring you in close conversation with the act of playing IMMORTALITY.
IMMORTALITY: Design Works – Deluxe Edition:
IMMORTALITY is not just a window into a decadent universe of interactive cinema. It’s also a glimpse into imagined film history. The three in-game films (Ambrosio, Minsky, Two of Everything) are fundamental entries in a film canon that never were. IMMORTALITY: Design Works – Deluxe Edition creates tangible proof that this trio of films truly existed.
Housed within a custom archival box signed by Sam Barlow, parse the items within to connect with authentic-feeling evidence of a speculative history. From film tickets and posters to newspaper clippings and linear scripts annotated by Marissa Marcel, enjoy artefacts so convincing that your reality and IMMORTALITY’S narrative will merge into one.
IMMORTALITY: Design Works – Deluxe Edition is limited to 300 units.
Archival Box:
As though pulled from the long-forgotten depths of a film archive, this archival box contains multitudes from the production of Ambrosio, Minsky, and Two of Everything, within them the tragic story of Marissa Marcel.
Custom-designed for IMMORTALITY: Design Works – Deluxe Edition and featuring a bookplate signed by Sam Barlow, this case is more than a sturdy packaging solution. It’s a window into another world.
Secrets Within
IMMORTALITY: Design Works contains design quirks unlike any you’ve seen before. Between thermo-reactive ink that responds to the heat of your hands and a hidden, French-folded image, experience a uniquely interactive reading experience that will bring you in close conversation with the act of playing IMMORTALITY. You’ll have to touch and tear the book to reveal all its text and imagery.
Movie Posters:
Long forgotten in the back of movie theatres the world over, these folded posters for Ambrosio, Minsky, and Two of Everything were printed and ready for a release that never came. Display this trio proudly and reflect on the hidden stories they contain
Ticket Stubs:
Tickets to showtimes that never occurred — these ephemeral and authentically-designed ticket stubs recall Ambrosio, Minsky, and Two of Everything screenings that would’ve been. Tuck them away safely so that these films’ legacies may live on.
Linear Scripts
Enjoy the individual scripts for Ambrosio, Minsky, and Two of Everything, each authentically bound as they would’ve been when handed out to Marissa Marcel. Comb over these scripts in great detail, learning from the notes scrawled in the margins by Marissa herself.
Newspaper Clipping:
Marissa Marcel was larger-than-life, a star in the spotlight and a person at the heart of something greater. Return to the height of her career and the glamour of film production with this in-universe newspaper report.
Police Report:
The narrative of Minksy’s production was marred by a seemingly unexplainable, random tragedy — a tragedy that holds a dark secret. Reflect upon the incomprehensible behind-the-scenes events in this in-universe police report.
Soundtrack Cassette:
Composed by the inimitable and Emmy Award-winning Nainita Desai, IMMORTALITY’S haunting and complex soundtrack is available for the first time on cassette, with campaign-exclusive artwork from Thinh Dinh.
Signed Photos:
Enjoy the meta-concept of IMMORTALITY set photos. A pair comes with IMMORTALITY: Design Works – Deluxe Edition, one signed by Manon Gage (Marissa Marcel), and the other by Ty Molbak (Carl Greenwood).
Our Values:
IMMORTALITY: Design Works is crafted to last, each copy demonstrating our commitment to sustainable business. We believe in ethical manufacture as strongly as we believe in games preservation. Please click here to learn more about our printer’s outstanding sustainability accreditations.
Sounds Across Time.
Composed by the inimitable and Emmy Award-winning Nainita Desai, IMMORTALITY’s haunting and complex soundtrack has captured the attention and imagination of players the world over. Both rich and austere, the soundtrack contains deep emotional complexity and stands as a soaring achievement that brings the player in closer conversation with Marissa Marcel and The One.
Available physically for the first time from Lost In Cult and Black Screen Records, purchase IMMORTALITY’s OST on a strictly limited run of vinyl, cassette, and CD. Each design pays homage to the in-game film and respective era from which it belongs, so you can choose the medium and movie which best represents your taste. Or, purchase all three together in the IMMORTALITY Sounds Across Time Complete Collection for a financial saving.
This collection is strictly limited on each format, and will not be reprinted.
IMMORTALITY Soundtrack Vinyl
Featuring design referential to Ambrosio with an exclusive custom-designed slipcase over the standard retail version sleeve, this campaign-exclusive variant is a double LP pressed on black recycled vinyl in a fully illustrated gatefold sleeve. Concepted to thematically tie into the period of Ambrosio’s cancelled production, the vintage feel both returns to that film’s 1968 context and contains the sophisticated, modern soundtrack of IMMORTALITY.
LIMITED TO 300 UNITS
IMMORTALITY Soundtrack Cassette
Before skipping tracks was an option, there was the humble cassette. This classic C90 cassette tape features the full IMMORTALITY soundtrack, adorned in disturbing artwork from Marissa’s 1970’s film Minsky.
LIMITED TO 200 UNTS
IMMORTALITY Soundtrack CD
It was a simpler time. In homage to Marissa Marcel’s unreleased 1999 film, Two of Everything, this CD contains IMMORTALITY’s full soundtrack with a period-accurate design aesthetic and nostalgic jewel case.
LIMITED TO 200 UNITS
Complete Immortality Exclusive Collection
