An Open Call
To the culture markets, museums, musicians, sculptors, smiths and keepers of craft across the Nordic and Scandinavian world: come inspire the world, objects and characters of a game sung into being in honour of the traditions you keep.
Who We Are Calling
Home & Horizon: The Deep North is built on a simple conviction: a fantasy North worth making must be inspired by the real one — its materials, its music, its hands. We are looking for people and institutions who carry that reality forward.
“Grounded in the Iron Age — not bound by it. We call it mythical realism.”
The world of Home & Horizon begins in the archaeological record: how a kota stands, how iron is sung from bog and bloom, how a kantele is held, how tar burns and birch bends. On top of that grounded form we lay a painterly surface, and in the light — fog, halo, the long dusk — we let the myth breathe. One fantastical detail per scene; everything else true. No horned helmets. No Hollywood Vikings.
Your craft would not be copied into a museum piece. It would inspire — a motif on a sheath, a rhythm in a crafting song, the weight of a hall, the voice of a shoreline. The game translates the real North into myth, and the translation is only as good as its sources.
The Masters We Bow To
Our compass points: the painters who proved that this landscape and its folklore belong together on canvas. These works are public domain — we show them as our artistic lineage, and as the standard we aim at.
How It Works
It starts with a conversation, not a contract. Show us your work, your collection, your tradition — tell us what the North means in your hands. We will show you the world as it stands.
Share reference, recordings, motifs, techniques — or create something new for the world. Inspiration can be as light as a photograph of a knot, or as deep as a recorded runo-song that becomes a crafting rite.
Every contributor is credited in the game and on this site. Deeper collaborations — commissions, licensed recordings, curated collections — are shaped and agreed together, in writing, before any work begins.
The community Telegram channel opens soon, and with it the door for answers to this call: introduce yourself, share your work and tell us what the North means in your hands. Every tester and every artist is welcome from day one.
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