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Ooniverse
Sydney Vega '23 (she her) and 2 OthersDeclan McEnerneyFaith Field
Game Link:
https://simmer.io/@Dmcenerney/ooniverse
project summary:
1. This is a platformer game where the player is transported to a fantasy world and discovers everyone there only lives for one year. While the player explores this world, they observe the consequences of this short timeline.
2. After waking up in this different world, Ooniverse's main objective is to figure out who is behind this fake city and escape. After a few days, the player soon realizes this place is not what it seems - they have flashbacks to their old life, which seemingly doesn't exist anymore in this alternate reality. Interviewing townspeople, researching the town's history, and solving secret puzzles can be used to unearth as much information as possible. There are themes of manipulation, brainwashing, and unreliable accounts of history. This can be paralleled to right-wing media and the way information travels and morphs within right-wing circles. News cycles can be compared to this one-year lifetime cycle, and the player is tested in this world where essentially every character is gaslighting them. This game is about trusting one's own intuition and internal moral compass, even when someone is presented with a fallacy disguised as fact.