Télore

Every world keeps time with a drum, and the drums have drifted out of step.
Carry what needs carrying. Listen to everyone.

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In development · iPhone · iPad · Mac

The courier's drum

Meet Kojo.
He carries the worlds.

A young courier in an indigo batakari with a kente stole and a djembe on his back. Parcels by hover okada, passengers by trotro, songs by heart, and other worlds by spacecraft.

The firmament is restless. Ember storms fall where they never fell before, and the old couriers say the worlds' drums have drifted out of step. Couriers are the ones who still move between peoples, and moving between peoples is how the worlds get back in time.

Play it

The drum is how the worlds talk.

In Télore you swing the djembe round and play: to call a festival round the fire, to jam in a studio, to make a wish on a shooting star. Try it here. Tap the skins, or use your keyboard.

Keys: J bass · K tone · L slap

Two worlds, so far

Small planets.
Big skies.

Each world has its own gravity and a high firmament you can fall through for a while. Each also has its own peoples, vehicles, weather, animals and sound. Between them is vacuum.

Africa

80 mradius

1.0 ggravity

4homelands

Savanna, laterite and lakes, baobabs and acacias, giraffes pacing the plains. Harmattan dust in the dry season, and ember storms when the drums fall out of step.

Zyrr

52 mradius

0.55 ggravity

2suns

Violet crystal ground with glowing veins, twisted spires and floating rocks under two coloured stars. Bell-shaped Zyrrians float about with rings for hands, and schools of flying fish swim through the air.

Many peoples, one planet

Every homeland greets you its own way.

Walk far enough and the houses change, the clothes change and the greeting changes. Every house has a real doorway, and when the sirens sound, everyone takes shelter.

Akan Coast

Akwaaba!

Thatched round houses round the fire. Home, the market stall and the festival.

Sahel Reach

Sannu!

Mud-brick houses bristling with palm-wood spikes, granaries on stone feet and a well.

Rift Highlands

Supa!

Plastered loaf houses inside a thorn boma, open to the highland wind.

Southern Hills

Sawubona!

Painted houses in bold geometry, grass beehive homes and a stone kraal.

The Sahel Reach from above — Sahel Reach

Rides

Built by our people,
for our people.

Every vehicle has a seat you climb into properly, hands on the grips and a step to get down. Every ship flies by the same book. On a premium kit, you can take your ride anywhere.

Africa · courier

Hover okada

Boost, drift, flip. The courier's bike, with a basket for the parcel and a lean for every corner.

Africa · passengers

Kojo Express

A hover trotro for ten. Ten stops ring the planet, and smooth driving earns tips. Pull up fast enough and it flies.

Africa ⇄ Zyrr · shuttle

Danfo Star

"No telephone to heaven." A yellow danfo for space: an open cockpit, twelve seats, a sliding door, and a conductor who never stops calling.

Africa · spacecraft

Sankofa

Go back and get it. Kente wings, the Sankofa bird on its tail, and the handling every other ship is tuned against.

Zyrr · saucer

Lumen

Zyrr's ship drops in on Africa now and then and beams a curious visitor down to look round the village.

Zyrr · hover-leaf

Skimmer

Stand on it, lean into the turns and slide across the crystal.

A living world

Seasons turn.
Sometimes it rains fire.

An ember storm over the village — Ember storm

Seasons and weatherDry season, rains and Harmattan on Africa. Clouds drift, a few rain at a time, and a rainbow follows.

Storms you can surviveA talking-drum siren and a full warning, then embers or hail. Get under a roof, and everyone runs indoors with you.

Night skiesShooting stars streak over whichever world you're on. Beat the drum before one fades and make a wish.

CreaturesGiraffes graze and gallop off. Birds flock over the savanna, and flying fish school through Zyrr's air.

The Sankofa above Africa — Into the firmament

The planet map with its legend — Maps for every world

Better together

One story,
told by everyone.

The story belongs to the world, not to one save. Everyone on a world shares the same chapter, the same season and the same storms. The world moves on when its people move it.

Shared harmony

Every delivery, festival, studio session and storm survived adds to the planet's harmony. Fill it together and the season turns, a new region opens and the next chapter begins.

Studios are squares

One performer at a time, everyone else listening. Songs that people play to the end become part of the world: locals hum them and festivals play them.

Couriers connect

Order something from another world and whoever takes the job flies it to you. Ride the Danfo Star with real people. Storms become rescues.

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Chapter 1 · The Courier's Drum. When it's full, the drums are back in step.

Carry what needs carrying.
Listen to everyone.

Télore is in development for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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TÉLORE

Meet Kojo.He carries the worlds.