Press
Press kit
Everything you need to present the game. The visual elements and their usage rules are in the brand guidelines, the plates in the artbook.
In one sentence
A solo genealogical investigation game: rebuild a family’s tree across four generations by cross-referencing letters, registers, photographs and press cuttings, in an imaginary country, Velmarche.
Fact sheet
ORC 74 · PR- Title
- L’Arbre aux absents
- Genre
- Genealogical investigation, deduction
- Development
- CM Interactive
- Writing and illustration
- CM Creative Lab
- Publisher
- CARDOR Media
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, browser
- Languages
- English and French (text and interface)
- Players
- Single-player
- Length
- Six to ten hours for the main case
- Price
- Free
- Release
- October 2026
- Website
- arbre.cardormedia.com
- Download
- cardorinteractive.itch.io
Description
Velmarche, October 1974. Twenty years after the fall of the Regency, which struck citizens deemed undesirable off the registers, a law at last makes it possible to re-register those who were called “the absent”. As a rapporteur at the Civil Re-registration Office, the player is handed an estate to investigate: an almost empty family tree and boxes of archives.
Letters, certificates, group photographs, directories, postcards, newspaper articles and a period card reader that answers to keywords: nothing is imposed in any order. The player pulls whichever thread they like, takes notes, pins and cross-checks, then fills in each slot of the tree (name, face, occupation). Answers are only confirmed by groups: you don’t guess, you deduce.
An engraved, watercoloured map of the country opens the archives of each place. Side secrets change the ending; achievements and a timed mode invite you to play again.
L’Arbre aux absents is developed by CM Interactive, written and illustrated by CM Creative Lab, and published by CARDOR Media.
Press contact
The game is free on itch.io: no key is needed to try it. The press contact will be published here soon.
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The press kit
Logos, posters, banners, artbook and press sheet, drawn from the game’s art and its design system. Free to use to talk about the game, in keeping with the brand guidelines: no name, secret or ending of the investigation.
The documents in the kit (artbook, press sheet, posters) are currently in French; the titles and logos are the same in every language.
Artbook 
Press sheet 
Poster “The desk under the lamp” (key art) 
Poster “Velmarche” (map, on paper) 
Poster “Who are the absent?” (portraits)
Documents
The artbook and the press sheet, as PDFs.
- Artbook: key art, map, vignettes, portraits, artistic intent PDF A4 landscape, 19 pages 5.0 MB
- Press sheet: short and long descriptions, fact sheet, links PDF A4 portrait, 2 pages, printable 613 KB
Game title and emblem
The title in four colourways: colour on a dark background (main use), colour on a light background, black, white. SVG with outlined text, transparent PNGs.
- Stacked title (title screen), colour, for dark backgrounds SVG vector, outlined text 42 KBPNG 600 × 637 px, transparent background 43 KBPNG 1200 × 1273 px, transparent background 94 KBPNG 2400 × 2546 px, transparent background 203 KB
- Stacked title (title screen), colour, for light backgrounds SVG vector, outlined text 42 KBPNG 600 × 637 px, transparent background 44 KBPNG 1200 × 1273 px, transparent background 96 KBPNG 2400 × 2546 px, transparent background 208 KB
- Stacked title (title screen), black SVG vector, outlined text 41 KBPNG 600 × 637 px, transparent background 30 KBPNG 1200 × 1273 px, transparent background 65 KBPNG 2400 × 2546 px, transparent background 141 KB
- Stacked title (title screen), white SVG vector, outlined text 42 KBPNG 600 × 637 px, transparent background 33 KBPNG 1200 × 1273 px, transparent background 71 KBPNG 2400 × 2546 px, transparent background 156 KB
- Single-line title, colour, for dark backgrounds SVG vector, outlined text 42 KBPNG 800 × 169 px, transparent background 21 KBPNG 1600 × 339 px, transparent background 46 KB
- Single-line title, colour, for light backgrounds SVG vector, outlined text 42 KBPNG 800 × 169 px, transparent background 22 KBPNG 1600 × 339 px, transparent background 47 KB
- Single-line title, black SVG vector, outlined text 41 KBPNG 800 × 169 px, transparent background 15 KBPNG 1600 × 339 px, transparent background 32 KB
- Single-line title, white SVG vector, outlined text 42 KBPNG 800 × 169 px, transparent background 16 KBPNG 1600 × 339 px, transparent background 35 KB
- Emblem, app icon (rounded corners) SVG vector, lamp glow as an image 298 KBPNG 1024 × 1024 px, transparent corners 424 KBPNG 512 × 512 px, transparent corners 139 KBPNG 256 × 256 px, transparent corners 46 KB
- Emblem, social media avatar (full square) SVG vector, lamp glow as an image 216 KBPNG 1024 × 1024 px 380 KBPNG 400 × 400 px 85 KB
A3 posters
Vector PDF for print, PNG for screens.
- Poster “The desk under the lamp” (key art) PDF A3 portrait, vector, for print 1.0 MBPNG 1755 × 2480 px (A3 at 150 dpi, A4 at 300 dpi) 2.4 MB
- Poster “Velmarche” (map, on paper) PDF A3 portrait, vector, for print 3.2 MBPNG 1755 × 2480 px (A3 at 150 dpi, A4 at 300 dpi) 1.2 MB
- Poster “Who are the absent?” (portraits) PDF A3 portrait, vector, for print 638 KBPNG 1755 × 2480 px (A3 at 150 dpi, A4 at 300 dpi) 1.5 MB
Banners and social visuals
The title always set in the quiet zone of the key art, with safe areas respected.
- itch.io, page banner (displayed at 960 × 300) JPEG 1920 × 600 px 169 KB
- X (Twitter), profile header JPEG 1500 × 500 px 113 KB
- Facebook, cover photo (2× 820 × 312) JPEG 1640 × 624 px 150 KB
- YouTube, channel banner (1546 × 423 safe area in the centre) JPEG 2560 × 1440 px 426 KB
- Twitch, profile banner JPEG 1200 × 480 px 90 KB
- Sharing (Open Graph, Discord), link preview JPEG 1200 × 630 px 110 KB
- Square visual (Instagram, Mastodon, Bluesky) JPEG 1080 × 1080 px 182 KB
- Vertical story (Instagram, TikTok, Shorts), 250 px safe areas JPEG 1080 × 1920 px 297 KB
Screenshots
The game at 1440 pixels wide, and the cover of the itch.io page.
- Screenshot: title screen PNG 1440 px 1.3 MB
- Screenshot: the workbench PNG 1440 px 439 KB
- Screenshot: the catalogue PNG 1440 px 685 KB
- Screenshot: reading a letter PNG 1440 px 868 KB
- Screenshot: the map PNG 1440 px 1020 KB
- Screenshot: the tree PNG 1440 px 588 KB
- itch.io cover PNG 1260 × 1000 px 1.3 MB
