Why the name of Maldoror?

[Garcia Rico]

As I asked before, because that name? Meaning?

[astrologo]

The word Maldoror comes from The Chants of Maldoror, a breaker text written by the count of Lautreamont, that was very influential to dadaism and surrealism. In the game, Maldoror is a name of a mansion that will be a vital stage for the development of the adventure.
We�ve used that particular name because we want to transmit with that word the very special air that we want to put in the game. An environment with touches of surrealism, dadaism, and expressionism, to distort a little the reality, in order to show it more clearly, like if we use a lens or a magnifying glass to make the virtues or defects of the reality of everything more visibly.
In that sense, we take as muses to give us inspiration the dadaism and surrealism texts, the writes of count of Lautreamount, of Charles Baudelaure, of Alejandro Sawa, of Valle-Incl�n, and many others. And the pictures and the films of the expressionist artists, like The Scream by Edvar Munch, or Fritz Lang�s Metropolis, or The tower of the seven hunchbacked by the spanish author Edgar Neville.

[astrologo]

Here you can see a short video of our references:

http://stratos-ad.com/utopia/adventureeurope/musas.wmv