Investigate
We reconstruct the provenance of every file, text, image and decision. Before changing anything, we need to understand what purpose it served.
INVESTIGATEDOCUMENTRECOVER
Independent collective · Open archive
TEAM 237
We recover videogames that should never have been lost.
Investigate · Document · Recover
01Introduction
Learning to read
what they left behind.
We did not begin by making videogames. Team 237 was formed during our university years as a shared space for researching stories, images, archives and interactive forms. Over time we understood that some projects do not need someone to replace their author, but someone willing to learn how to read what was left behind.
In 2024 an unfinished game reached us, together with journals, notebooks, old builds and years of documentation. Since then, we have been reconstructing it without erasing the questions it contains.
Document
We record versions, contradictions and production decisions. Documentation is not an appendix to the project: it is part of it.
Recover
We recover incomplete systems and scattered materials to make the work publishable without pretending it was born complete.
02Provenance
Gamescom · 2024
A project that arrived
before its answers.
The meeting
At Gamescom we met Álvaro Llorente’s wife. She was looking for a publisher for a videogame completed by her husband. It impressed us, although another publisher made a financial offer we could not match.
The second project
She then told us about a more ambitious, stranger and unfinished work: a game accompanied by journals, notebooks and extensive research material.
The reconstruction
With her permission, we examined the files and took on the task of completing the project. The main reconstruction is carried out by an external developer coordinated by Mateo Ferro.
Álvaro Llorente disappeared during a research trip to Casa da Fonte. His whereabouts remain unknown.
03The team
Five disciplines · One shared responsibility
Team 237
Former university classmates from engineering and the humanities. We are not a conventional studio; we are the team this archive needed.
01 / 05
Iria Fontán
Anthropology and documentary research
Catalogues the materials gathered by Álvaro and studies their provenance. She reconstructs dates, names, places and relationships without confusing research with speculation.
02 / 05
Mateo Ferro
Technical engineering and production
Coordinates development, organises builds, supervises the technical reconstruction and acts as liaison with platforms and collaborators.
03 / 05
Cira Valcárcel
Philology, writing and localisation
Reviews the texts, identifies changes in register and authorship, coordinates localisation and supervises subtitles and voices.
04 / 05
Brais Calado
Philosophy and conceptual direction
Protects the coherence between mechanics, spaces, images and ideas. He supervises the artistic approach without turning anomalies into arbitrary decoration.
05 / 05
Uxía Seixas
Audiovisual archives and digital preservation
Organises images, recordings and sound materials; preserves versions and sources; and supervises the integration of audiovisual documents.
PROJECT SPOOKY
Case file 001 · Under reconstruction
The house remembers what everyone else decided to forget.
The developer disappeared before finishing this game. Play a reconstruction of his final project and discover what happened inside a house that does not want to let you leave. The better you understand its rules, the more frightening it becomes.
- Genre
- First-person psychological horror
- Length
- 8–12 hours · 7 chapters
- Voices
- Spanish and English
- Platforms
- PC · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series
- Release
- 11 February 2027
- Expected price
- €17.99
- Status
- Active reconstruction
- Demo
- Available on Steam
04Journal
Reconstruction notes
Development journal
Technical, documentary and editorial decisions written by the people working with the materials.
Darkness Does Not Preserve Itself
Brais CaladoReconstructing the darkness of Project Spooky is not about adding light, but restoring the hierarchy that allows the eye to find each form in the right order.
The House Is Not a Setting: It Is a Rule
Brais CaladoReconstructing Casa da Fonte means understanding what each space compels the player to do and what the player learns by obeying it.
The House Measured Twice
Mateo FerroA surviving sketch does not fully match the geometry of the build, forcing us to decide what kind of document contains more truth about an unfinished videogame.
05Contact
Communication channel
Let us speak
precisely.
For press, platforms, collaborations, demo support or questions about the project.