rooms in room Room Map is a game where you explore progressively denser rooms inside an apartment that's inside another apartment.
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When I played Map, I felt much like an ordinary person perceiving the rupture in our material world, until finally spending the rest of my life in a city of giants as a purposeless element.
When I played Apt. Map, all that human materiality was no longer present, and I felt much like an entity with no sense of mortality, navigating an infinite sea of universes of ideas and conceptual black holes.
When I played Room Map, all these feelings surfaced but in a different way. Despite moving much like a two-legged being, I was trapped in a room, with nothing but the terror of isolation. So, it is in this that you find your escape, imagining and connecting through the mental worlds of other trapped individuals, much like how we as players did in the previous maps.
When one is a human being our materiality is well-defined. We control this enormous flesh robot through a thing called a brain, and we segment our world through these principles of life: touch, speech, smell, etc., etc. And when we possess a brain, we use it precisely to imagine things, "what if I could fly?" "what if I were invisible?" "what if I were immortal?" "what if I was that person?" We often get caught up in these thoughts, but we always return to the real world and these concepts.
Why not rethink all these concepts within a video game? When I played Map, I felt more detached from my physical existence and closer to my soul. As I passed through walls and everything around me grew while I gradually shrank, accompanied by whispers and audiences, this disruption of concepts that the physics of our world presents to us and that we treat as the norm, I felt more "real" than any lifelike RPG simulator video game has ever made me feel.
Map isn't the first video game to evoke this kind of feeling, and it certainly won't be the last, but it's always rewarding to play a video game like this.
When I played Apt. Map, all that human materiality was no longer present, and I felt much like an entity with no sense of mortality, navigating an infinite sea of universes of ideas and conceptual black holes.
When I played Room Map, all these feelings surfaced but in a different way. Despite moving much like a two-legged being, I was trapped in a room, with nothing but the terror of isolation. So, it is in this that you find your escape, imagining and connecting through the mental worlds of other trapped individuals, much like how we as players did in the previous maps.
When one is a human being our materiality is well-defined. We control this enormous flesh robot through a thing called a brain, and we segment our world through these principles of life: touch, speech, smell, etc., etc. And when we possess a brain, we use it precisely to imagine things, "what if I could fly?" "what if I were invisible?" "what if I were immortal?" "what if I was that person?" We often get caught up in these thoughts, but we always return to the real world and these concepts.
Why not rethink all these concepts within a video game? When I played Map, I felt more detached from my physical existence and closer to my soul. As I passed through walls and everything around me grew while I gradually shrank, accompanied by whispers and audiences, this disruption of concepts that the physics of our world presents to us and that we treat as the norm, I felt more "real" than any lifelike RPG simulator video game has ever made me feel.
Map isn't the first video game to evoke this kind of feeling, and it certainly won't be the last, but it's always rewarding to play a video game like this.