Many a great fantasy adventure begins with a map, and for good reason. What better way to transport you somewhere else? Maps provide mystery, wonder and plenty of possibilities, drawing you into the fiction before the journey has even begun.
From the get-go Carto understands the magic of maps. Your character, also named “Carto”, lives on an airship with her grandmother, who – from a cloud’s perspective – uses map tiles to transform the land below. One day Carto gets hold of her grandma’s terraforming map tiles. Disaster strikes, and you end up washed up on a beach somewhere far from home.
As you explore, you’ll quickly realise that unlike a real map, there’s very little abstraction in the universe of Carto. The map is the world and vice versa. So while you can explore a tile of land, you’ll quickly bump up against the edges of reality. In order to continue on your journey and find your way back home, you’ll need to find other map pieces, so that you can build out the environment, connecting tiles together into something larger and cohesive.
