Hello everyone, we haven't been able to share an update from our Steam page for a long time. Welcome to our blog post today, where we will provide very useful information about both Turkish Mythology and Mandeshire.


To be honest, we failed during the demo process! We accept this, and for this reason we have completely changed the game from scratch. Although we can't count how many times this happened, it is very important for us that Mandeshire is a good game and you enjoy playing this game.

• Player controls have been developed from scratch.
  
• The camera system has been developed from scratch.
  
• The inventory system has been developed from scratch.
  
• The art style of the game has been changed to stylized as a whole.
  
• Enemy AI was developed from scratch.
  
• Combat system has been developed from scratch and tested many times.
  
• The whole UI has been completely changed.
  
• Most of the game's physics system problems have been fixed.
  
• The visual effects have been completely changed.
  
• The map design has been greatly improved.

In fact, if we leave aside the updates, today we will talk about the Altai Creation epic, in which the story of Mandeshire is also mentioned in our blog post. Taking the floor from our team leader Can, please allow me, the historian of the team, Kağan, and my esteemed teammate, the cinematographer Özgür, to tell you about the Altai Epic of Creation.

The Altai Epic of Creation is known as one of the oldest epics in the oral culture of Turkish tribes. It is a story that belongs to the Altai-Yakut Turks living around Southern Siberia and contains a lot of mythological elements. There are two different versions of the epic, prepared by the Russian Turcologist Radloff with extensive research in the 19th century, and arranged by the Russian missionary Vebitskiy while living among the Altai tribes. Aside from its originality and systematicity being fascinating, it also contains important predictions about Turkish mythology, as it is an epic of creation.

The world was a sea, neither sky nor earth,
Endless, vast, endless, waters were everywhere
God Ulgen is flying, there was no place to land,
He was flying, searching, a solid place, a parish.

The epic tells how the creator god Ülgen created the world and man, and the series of conflicts between Ülgen and the evil god Erlik. While the version compiled by Verbitskiy is quite original and plain on this dispute, there are similarities to the biblical creation story, such as Erlik's deception of people in the creation epic edited by Radloff. This is somewhat surprising when we consider that Vebitskiy was a Christian missionary.

When the erlik was created, it wandered, dusted and had fun,
Days passed, and suddenly he stopped and said:
“— Why should I not be, higher than God,
Why God be in heaven alone!
Why shouldn't I be, mighty and mighty,
Is this a fault, if I was just born!”
Going further, his eyes filled with greed,
Jealous of God, he became an eternal enemy.

In general, epics were a source of entertainment for Altai Turks, told on special days or ceremonies, aiming to improve their time. Various hero stories, creatures with different characteristics would attract people's attention and create an activity. As a matter of fact, the Altai Epic of Creation is quite different from the epics used for these purposes, as it is a cosmogonic story. The Epic of Creation is much more special than the others because it is the explanation that the Altai Turks bring to existence and the source on which the good-evil balance is based. It can also be claimed to be a source of inspiration for other epics, as it tells how the earth, seas and living things were created.

God looked. Erlik is useless,
With the existence of Erlik, this world cannot live.
He created a hero named Mandı-Şire,
He said, "He will protect the human instead of Erlik"

Thus began the struggle between Mandeşire and Erlik Khan. In our upcoming blogs, we will be examining the similarities and differences of Turkish mythology with other mythologies, and the originality of the Altai Epic of Creation. We wish everyone a good day.