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Warning: this article contains spoilers for the main game and DLCs!
Hello!
We are back with a new installment of our Creating series, and this time we want to tell you about our dear Zinaida Muravyova!

It's hard to imagine the Atomic universe without its heart—Granny Zina. She has been one of the central figures in Artem Galeev's concepts since the 2000s.

Granny Zina is an imposing character in the world of Atomic Heart. Zinaida Petrovna Muravyova, despite being 52 years old (at the start of the main game), remains an indomitable fighting spirit, capable of defeating enemies on her own.

Granny Zina maintains secret government communications under Sechenov, but reports directly to Khrushchev. However, after tragedy befell her daughter, she began to doubt Sechenov's ideals and blamed him for what happened to Ekaterina.


Granny Zina's character is a mixture of strength and determination, which she often hides behind a mask of temper and hysteria, tactfully playing on stereotypes about the incompetence of female officers. Despite this callous facade, she does care deeply for her daughter. Actress Irina Shanaeva helped bring the character to life in the game.


Granny Zina has extensive knowledge of activities inside the Facility, a high level of combat training, and access to various secret systems. With her powerful but well-disguised intellect and physical strength, she has become a superhero of sorts. Employees have long regarded her as a local celebrity. By studying various records and materials within Facility 3826, players will notice the high level of authority that she has earned among other employees.

Granny Zina's original image has undergone some changes since the early iterations of the game.



High-waisted tweed trousers, a shirt, and a sports coat are the key elements of her final costume, which is very much in keeping with classic British riding and sporting fashion. Granny Zina often went on business trips for government affairs, which inspired her to adopt English style for her image. She wears a headscarf to finish off her look. This style may seem unusual, but it definitely stands out to the general fashion of the Atomic Heart world.


Comment by Artem Galeev:
"Her image and relationships with other characters are full of folklore motifs. For example, Sechenov represents Koshchei the Immortal, while Granny Zina represents Baba Yaga. Their relationships and roles have long been captured in various fairy tales."

As a reference to her fairy tale inspiration, she has a flying hut. The original plan was that the hut would function as a store, flying from place to place, but this idea was canceled during development, and NORA was created instead. Maybe she deserves her own story?



In addition to the hut, Granny Zina also has a miniature version. It acts as a sort of pet, and Granny Zina refers to it as a "chipped chicken." Initially, Sechenov discovered this creature in the world of Limbo and took it as a trophy for research.



In the game, her role has changed many times, from a friendly granny, ready to help, to an antagonist. But her concept remains the same—she is an éminence grise, able to manipulate everyone for the benefit of the world's socio-political goals.

If you were inspired by the story of Granny Zina, you can become her with the help of our new cosplay guide. {LINK REMOVED}Follow the link to download it!

Don't forget to check out our previous entries in the Creating series. Dive deep into the world of Atomic Heart!

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The story of making a world where everything started

Hi, everyone!

Although the world of Atomic Heart as a whole is full of mysteries, encouraging our players to ask new questions and create new fan theories, Limbo remains the most mysterious part of it.

With the release of our 2nd story DLC Atomic Heart: Trapped In Limbo, the twisted world created by visionary Artem ‘Artep’ Galeev has opened its veil of secrets even more.

But to better understand this world, we decided to trace back its origins and share the backstory behind the concept that started the Atomic Heart universe.

In the late 90s, Artem became fascinated with creating a world of the unconscious, a world of fairy tales—an alternative to technocracy. This was purely a passion project he pursued in parallel with his primary work. That's why the first concept was finally formed only in 2004-2006. And the working title for it was "Varoli’s Bridge".

The main protagonists of this world were the heroine Belka, dressed in a white fur coat with a tail, and the already well-known hero—Newton.



They traveled through a surreal world filled with towns, and villages populated by various marvelous characters. Each of these places had a different economic, political, and social structure.



The protagonists' goal was to reach the lighthouse, the Varoli’s Bridge, to find the way out of the world.
But the inhabitants enthralled the heroes with the vicissitudes of their destinies, involving and twisting their path into dead-ends and strands of endless adventures.



The world map looked like the divisions of the cortex and brainstem. The very name "Varoli’s Bridge" is a section of the brain passing through the middle of its hemispheres:



It symbolizes the social unconscious—the part of the brain where everyone is all the same in their functional abilities. This whole world was full of profound themes and ideas. Even the images of the main characters dressed in white fur coats represent the perfectionism and deification of man’s essence and the unrestrained attempt of society to bring itself to the ideal and to rise above nature.



But with the concept's further development, it became clear that it was getting too complex and the ideas it contained would be more difficult to convey in simple terms while retaining the original meaning.

So at this point, it was necessary to go back to the origins of world creation and focus on technology and science as a prologue to Limbo, which, by then, had already got its famous name. Thus, all Limbo characters were moved to a more familiar alternative real world.
For example, Sechenov was created based on Mr. Sponger's character, who lived in a sponge in the Limbo world. The current image of Granny Zina was created based on the fact that back then, in the world of Limbo, she originally had supernatural powers and personified matriarchy. And there are many similar examples!

But it wasn't just Limbo's characters who were able to find their place in the new environment—the world structure of Limbo with its political and social specifics was embodied in Facility 3826.

As Artem mentioned in his last interview on the PCGamesN portal:
“To us, everything in the world of Limbo may seem absurd, and to the inhabitants of Limbo, our real world also seems absurd. Everything became interconnected—worlds are spliced together like a DNA helix”.



Also, one of the most common questions about Limbo's visual identity is about the meaning of the polka dot pattern. Actually, it’s one of the natural fractals that can be found in cellular structure, bee honeycomb, matrix, etc. This pattern was chosen to highlight objects in Limbo that emerged from the natural world. This way, they attract the attention of insects and animals in order to be eaten for the sake of reproduction and increasing the population.


(photo by Mik Bromley)

With the release of Trapped In Limbo, our second story DLC, some players were surprised by this variation of this world. Considering all of the above, it’s the same place but a different part of it, and now it’s much easier to spot some connections: sugar carbohydrates, calories, cold fusion for energy, a jellyfish-shaped turbojet engine, bacteria, eating carbohydrates from which houses are made, and much more.



There’s also another direct quote from Artem from the last interview that is worth mentioning:
“Since the world of Limbo is strikingly different from the real world, the gameplay, its mechanics, and the overall mood are also different now. These unconventional mechanics were specifically chosen to blow minds”.

Get DLC#2 here

The music and soundscapes of Atomic Heart's world are completely different as well and have a bigger story behind them that we may be sharing in the future.

But Geoffrey Day, one of our talented music composers and a lovely human being decided to share a sneak peek. Just recently he posted a video detailing the creation process behind the “Cookie Crumbler”—one of the tracks from the Trapped In Limbo DLC#2 and OST VOL.4 as well:




Limbo is the source of the entire Atomic Heart’s universe. And it’s almost like a gift box from which new surprising details of the setting emerge each time—like a fractal generating its copy in the process of formation. And this is how this mad and colorful world in the end created itself.

Atomic Heart recently celebrated its first release anniversary and the game's intense story continues to be a hot topic among the community.

To fuel the fire of discussion, we wanted to remind old fans and introduce new ones to the full timeline of Atomic Heart's events so far.

Patch 1.13.4.0 for Atomic Heart is rolled out and now available on Steam.
See the list of changes for this update below:

TRAPPED IN LIMBO DLC#2:

• Adjusted Teardrop's presence logic (now it only appears during dialogues)
  
• Corrected Goose Racing track (removed green obstacle)
  
• Fixed an issue with localization of displayed narrative subtitles

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SOLVING SOME ISSUES

• We cannot guarantee or support the game if the Atomic Heart game client has been modified by any third-party software. If this happens, you should uninstall this software and reinstall the game.
  
• If you encounter issues on Steam, first check the integrity of the game files as described here.
  This may solve the issues.
  
• Also, if you encounter any issues while playing, you can direct them here: BUG-REPORT FORM

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We are monitoring it very closely and will share news in a timely manner!

To celebrate the release of Atomic Heart: Trapped In Limbo once again, we bring you a set of wallpapers for desktop and phones!
Let the images of this twisted world, created by the mind of Artem Galeev, stay with you longer.

Below you will find links to download the archives with all current screen resolutions

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Newton Desktop Wallpaper/Newton Mobile Wallpaper

Goose Desktop Wallpaper/Goose Mobile Wallpaper

Patch 1.13.3.0 for Atomic Heart is rolled out and now available on Steam. See the list of changes for this update below:

MAIN GAME:

• Fixed an issue causing players to fall under the landscape

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SOLVING SOME ISSUES

• We cannot guarantee or support the game if the Atomic Heart game client has been modified by any third-party software. If this happens, you should uninstall this software and reinstall the game.
  
• If you encounter issues on Steam, first check the integrity of the game files as described here. This may solve the issues.
  
• Also, if you encounter any issues while playing, you can direct them here:
  BUG REPORT FORM

Thank you for sharing your feedback with us.
We are monitoring it very closely and will share news in a timely manner!