The Heart of Africa — Modern Remake

A single-player 3D remake of the 1985 exploration classic The Heart of Africa — Ozark Softscape’s follow-up to The Seven Cities of Gold (1984) — built as a web application. You start in Cairo in 1890 with $250 and a journal, and travel across a geographically authentic Africa in search of a lost tomb: trading in port cities and decoding direction hints given in the regions’ own language system.

If you remember The Seven Cities of Gold, you know the DNA: the same design team, and the same loop of walking into an unmapped continent, watching the map fill itself in behind you, and getting along — or not — with the peoples who already live there. Where that game had the Americas, this one has Africa.

PoC playable directly in the browser at:
https://patrickvonmassow.github.io/Heart-of-Africa-Remake/poc/

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Gameplay

• Two perspectives. A 3D bird’s-eye view for the journey across the continent, and a first-person view inside walkable settlements; the game switches between them when entering or leaving a settlement.
• Living world. Ten port cities, 22 peoples, 17 rivers and real landmarks at their 1890…