GCM: Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. Would please get us started by introducing yourself and telling us about the team behind “The Roots”

Piotr Krzywonosiuk: I am Piotr Krzywonosiuk (yep, that actually can be pronounced ;-)), an Operation Manager and Producer for Tannhauser Gate. Tannhauser Gate was founded in 1998. Our first project was a MMOG Mimesis Online, released back in 2002. The company is based in Wroclaw, Poland. At the moment our team is made from of 29 programmers, artists, testers and management staff working on The Roots for PC and Xbox. A separate team within the studio is developing The Roots: Gates of Chaos, a prequel for the original game, only for Nokia’s N-Gage game deck.

GCM: For starters, please give us a sense of the story driving The Roots.

Piotr Krzywonosiuk: For hundreds of years the land of Lorath has remained a peaceful and idyllic place. Mystical Trees of Elements have maintained the world’s harmony and the stories of great struggle for power that had taken place between Lady of Life and the evil Demon Lord slowly turned into legends that only few would remember. The Lord’s soul had been shattered to pieces and buried under the Trees roots; any danger faded.

Then, seemingly without any apparent reason, one of the Trees begin to die. This is when we meet Yan, our young hero. Yan was once adopted by the Sentinel of the Tree of Life, one of the Mystical Trees, which now begins to die. Brave Yan is sent for a journey of his life during which he will find out that the forces of evil have returned to threaten Lorath once again. The world’s fate is left to doubt again. It will be up to the player to solve the mystery and defeat the forces of darkness. It will be a struggle against destiny and ancient Gods, abundant in action turns, surprising events, sincere friends and sworn enemies.