Spatial Narratives | NuVu Cambridge

Mid-review

Verity Gould and January 31, 2022 2:20pm Privacy: Public

Forest Game

Finn M, Verity, and Reese

Surface Story

Main Theme/Moral

Main Character

Environment

Clues (Significant Objects and Characters)

Deforestation/

resource misuse

A satyr in the woods, reliant on resource left behind by humans.

Slowly diminishing forest near an expanding kingdom.

(1) Not enough resource for trade, homes, and shelter

(3)

(2)

(4)

Hidden Story

Animals being pushed out of the environments they need to live in.

Forests and other biomes on earth

(1)

(3)

(2)

(4)

Logging and Expansion

Habitat, Home, and Trade Loss

deforestation/

resource misuse

Logging and Expansion

Habitat, Home, and Trade Loss

Allegory Map

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Civil Sickness

Benjamin Jackson and Silvia Askanase January 31, 2022 2:19pm Privacy: Public

Civil Sickness

Silvia and Ben

Surface Story

Main Theme/Moral

Main Character

Environment

Clues (Significant Objects and Characters)

Problem: Plague

The main character is a rat who lives near a house and takes food from it which infects the people living there.

The main game takes place in a house, both in the rooms and in the walls.

(1) Dog in the wall

(3) Food

(2) Symptoms of the diseases

(4) Rat traps

Hidden Story

Corporations are knowingly polluting,

which has effects of people's health especially people who can't do anything about it.

The setting is Earth, specifically Bakersfield, California

(1) Clue that you are hurting people

(3) Resources produced

(2) Smog

(4) Climate sanctions

Cause: Infected rat

Effect: The people are dying leaving the rats without food

Problem: Climate change

Cause:

Corporations

Effect: Everyone dying

Allegory Map

Game Play Diagram

Scene 1: Nest

Scene 2: Outside of house

Scene 3: Inner Wall

Scene 4: Kitchen

Losing Resources

Gaining Resources

Avoid death

Collect the sugar and find secret room

Collect the bean and enter the house

Start at home

Permanently store food

Scene 5: Dog Wall

Meet Spider

Collect Cheese

Meet the Dog

Collect the crumb

Scene 6: Living Room

Learning about the world

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Explore the world of Civil Sickness in the all-new mystery platformer. Enter the house and run from room to room gathering food, avoiding rat traps, and jumping from platforms and shelves. Meet friends and foes along the way, gathering information about the world surrounding you.

By playing through the game you discover that the sickness of the house is stemming from you. The allegory is between human - caused air pollution and a fabricated pandemic/ plague that is infecting humans in the area. The rat is the equivalent of real-world CEOs and owners who perpetrate and allow for pollution of the environment to continue. The game also shows the predicament of how the production of many necessary products creates pollution by having the rat bring food that it is finding in the home back to its nest for its family. Its children's survival depends on the food but at the same time, it hurts the humans living in their house, depleting the food, and eventually leading to everyone's death. The game shows how precarious a situation the production of resources is but still how much it needs to be fixed because of the pollution being caused.

Within the actual game, while playing as the rat you see a human in one of the first few rooms but after going deeper into the house you discover a dead man who died due to the disease the rat carries. The player can also find a somewhat secret room in which a dog sticks its head through the wall and tells you more about the world. In the potential final version of the game, there is an option the leave the area in which the house is located, saving the humans and stopping the disease, or in the case of the allegory air pollution.

Game: https://simmer.io/@Silv/civil-sickness

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