About

Two Tail Tales is a video game in development by Unsung Productions. Featuring two controllable characters that can become a single one with a "Mount" mechanic. But requiring to separate the characters from time to time so they can use their different abilities and skills to solve puzzles together. The game had an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign back in July of 2020. Despite that the devs claim that the game's development will continue.

Origin

The idea of the game originated back in 2017 at the site Know Your meme when the artist and user Whyme made a picture featuring the characters from the I will now buy your game meme as if they were part of an actual game.

To the surprise of everyone including Whyme himself picture was received a very positive reception to the point of wishing for it to be an actual game, which drove Whyme to expand the idea further on a more complex comic strip.

After that other users and artist that found a liking on the characters and wholesome atmosphere that Whyme managed to create. Many starting to create fan art of sorts and even expanding the idea with more characters.

Various examples

Leading to many coming together to try to make the game a reality.

Developments

Despite the big enthusiasm over the game the group decided to be more quiet and private about the game's development. Going public one year later to announce that the game that the game was in fact still in development and that they were looking for more people to join up. With a new picture showing a more developed art style for the game.

After that the group went quiet yet again after gaining a few new members.

Kickstarter and Company announcement

In July of 2020 the group revealed themselves as Unsung Productions with the release of a Kickstarter aimed to help the further development of the game. With a promise of a demo build later that month.

Kickstarter and Demo reception

Despite getting great enthusiasm from part of those the found the kickstater the lack of attention allow it to only reach 2.800$ of the 20.900$ goal. The demo itself earning little fan fare after releasing half a month later.

With the release of the Demo the team also made a Discord server for people to interact with the devs and discuss and share media about game. (Disclaimer, the current link the the server seems to not be working)

With the kickstarter failure confirmed, Unsung Productions promised to keep working on the game regardless, claiming that they would first make another smaller game first.