Dawn Aerowar is an interactive animated film in 12 episodes, made with 3D animation, hand-drawn 2D art and a full English voice cast. It follows a fighter pilot on his last mission against the Empire that took his family and his home.
He is escorting a weapon nobody is supposed to know about. In his way: the last aces of the Saal'Runa Empire.
The Free Nations have been losing the war for years, and the Saal'Runa Empire now holds almost everything.
One pilot flies a last sortie across the whole Empire, from the northern front to the strait, the Aegis Sea and the Capital. Every flight is animated in 3D and cut like a film.
Zodiac 1 lost his family and his home to the Empire. He keeps flying for revenge. The Empire sends three aces to stop him.
Each of them asks him the same question: do you even know what you're fighting for?
Zodiac flies alone. The war reaches him through the radio, in the voice of an AWACS operator he has never met: talkative, sharp, and far too well informed. Everything he learns about the war comes from that voice.
Every character is voiced by a professional actor.
And over thirty additional voices.
Dawn comes with its own player: episode selection, subtitles and Steam achievements.
Press Play to open the War Room: a map of the whole operation with its twelve missions along one route, and files on the characters and places of the war.
Cinematic mode plays the film from start to finish.
All the music was written to picture: fast and big, with choirs, Bulgarian voices, classical guitar and two original songs.
The album has 34 tracks.
186% funded on Kickstarter by more than 600 backers.