Project Introduction

Hiboka is a single player third-person survival horror video game based on folklore from Madagascar and set around the middle of the 20th century.
In Malagasy culture, some believe that it is possible to communicate with our ancestors that passed away through spirit possession called Tromba. In order to reunite with his mother who died recently, a wealthy French teenage boy (Alexandre) travels to the heart of Madagascar in 1942. On his expedition, he meets a Malagasy girl (Ramala) and together they end up getting trapped inside a cursed and mysterious mansion in the woods. To survive from evil spirits and uncover the mystery of the mansion, they need to collaborate and fight together.
Key characteristics:
- A beautiful story of intrigue and horror based on folklore from Madagascar.
- A unique real time decision system that affects both main characters through their respective timelines.
- Play as both Alexandre and then Ramala to uncover the truth behind the cursed Sanatry Mansion.

About Developer

Flying Carpets is an independent video game studio founded in Montreal in July 2012.
Our mission is to make the games that we want to play, with unique and original designs that can inspire players. Our work is founded on passion, love and gratification.

Our team consists of a passionate group of professionals that worked in the field of video games for many years. Our team is diverse and includes men and women of African, Asian and Arabic descent.

Our team successfully released an Action/Adventure game called The Girl and the Robot on Steam (PC) in 2016 and on PS4 and Wii U in 2017.
The game had a successful Kickstarter campaign, raising more than twice its funding goal and won the Storyteller Award at the BitSummit Festival in Kyoto in 2014.
In 2019, we released the card game version of The Girl and the Robot and we also managed to raise twice our funding goal on Kickstarter.
Now we are working on Hiboka, a very personal project for the designer Salim Larochelle since it combines various aspects of Madagascar, the home country of his mother.