Five Migrant Stories Told in Songs of Travel by Causa Creations

Causa Creations will release its new game Songs of Travel, an interactive animated graphic novel that tells the story of how different migrants have found their place in the world, for Android and iOS in May 2024.

Songs of Travel, developed by Austrian studio Causa Creations, is an animated graphic novel that tells the stories of five migrants from different backgrounds seeking a new start in Europe. It will be released for free on Google Play and the App Store on 9 May. "The aim of Songs of Travel is to bring the personal stories of migrants to a wider audience and paint a vivid picture of the topic of migration. The narratives are tied together by the experiences of the Syrian artist Jack Gutmann, who co-developed the award-winning game Path Out with the game's developer, Causa Creations," says the company.

The five stories are inspired by real events: - Light, a non-binary Syrian refugee who arrives in Vienna after years of hardship and war in Syria and the United Arab Emirates. - Vân, the daughter of a Vietnamese contract worker who grew up in East-Germany and who must deal with the duality of being Vietnamese-German. - Michele, the son of Francesco Cicora, an Italian coal miner who died in the great mining disaster of Marcinelle 1956 in Belgium. - Hasan, who came to Austria at the age of 1, when his mother moved there from Istanbul, Turkey. - Olya, a Ukrainian lawyer and a refugee who has had to flee twice: first when she left her home of Donetsk in 2014 and fled to Kyiv, and then when she fled from Ukraine once war erupted in 2022.

Causa Creations is a boutique game development studio based in Vienna, Austria. The independent company was founded in 2014 and is currently led by Georg Hobmeier, Ben Wahl and Christian Knapp. The multidisciplinary team is dedicated to creating holistic experiences that not only entertain, but also engage and inform.

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