These included detailed character bios, such as the ones seen above. It was never prototyped, but the team produced a plethora of conceptual documents for the game to pitch it to various publishers. It had been an entirely original creation from several of the studio’s designers and artists, as part of an ongoing effort by the company to work on more ambitious IP’s. In the beginning, Next Level had no publisher attached to the project. Herman & Otto could then ride the clock’s internal railings by rolling or use their ability to float for a limited period of time. The entirety of traversal in Clockwerk would have been built around this mechanic. One of the central hooks of the gameplay was that the two protagonists could pull a cord on each of their suits (named “schutzanzugs”) to inflate them. The Would-be MechanicsĪlthough the artists involved with the project declined to comment on whether or not the game was intended to be in 3D or 2D, one of them did reveal to us that it would have been “a puzzle platformer with combat elements“. The clock tower was surrounded by a quaint Bavarian style village (elements of which can be seen in the lower right), perched on a circle of clouds, where the retired Hausmeisters spent out their remaining days relaxing and reminiscing about old times.” – Derek Stenning, concept artist. “This massive floating cuckoo clock was the stage where the story of Clockwerk was to play out.
In order for the grumpy twosome to finally retire, they must defeat the invaders and repair its inner workings. On their final day before retirement, a faction of evil gremlins attack the tower, dismantling its innards and disrupting the behaviour of time. It was conceived as the story of two old men, Otto & Herman, who work as Hausmeisters (caretakers) in a magical floating clock tower suspended in the clouds called ‘The World Clock’, that governs the flow of time throughout the universe. A poster created for the pitch of Clockwerk.
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