A 20 minute game about browsing the internet while moving at lightspeed. In a single half hour, years have passed for your friends.
More than anything, its a game about a Feeling. Almost instantly after you've left the planet, technology starts advancing at a rapid pace. Implants, synthetic rights, police crackdowns, all these factors become everyday issues for your online friends. As they get into their facebook arguments and debates, it immediately creates that sensation of feeling lost. You can try to keep in contact as best you can, but the only prompts you can send to people just expose your ignorance about the world. It can be frustrating to have such limited responses, but it conveys just how lost you are as your friends drift on through life.
Its not a particularly elaborate game and its not trying to be. There seems to be some minor changes to posts depending on your actions, but its hard to pinpoint the exact cause. That ambiguity helps the game's thesis. What impact are you leaving on these people's lives? Over a decade has passed and you've only posted a few comments. Do they even remember you?
On your final page refresh, no one's on the website anymore. The company providing your flight didn't add any other website options, so you're stuck looking at bots while all your friends have moved on. Its the culmination of that feeling of quiet isolation. Even when you get off your flight, what's waiting for you? Lightyears away from friends, rebuilding your life, trying to reconnect long-distance with people who have barely heard from you in the decades. Its messy. Its complicated. Its an uncomfortable feeling to sit in but its the reality of things. Now you have to live with it.
More than anything, its a game about a Feeling. Almost instantly after you've left the planet, technology starts advancing at a rapid pace. Implants, synthetic rights, police crackdowns, all these factors become everyday issues for your online friends. As they get into their facebook arguments and debates, it immediately creates that sensation of feeling lost. You can try to keep in contact as best you can, but the only prompts you can send to people just expose your ignorance about the world. It can be frustrating to have such limited responses, but it conveys just how lost you are as your friends drift on through life.
Its not a particularly elaborate game and its not trying to be. There seems to be some minor changes to posts depending on your actions, but its hard to pinpoint the exact cause. That ambiguity helps the game's thesis. What impact are you leaving on these people's lives? Over a decade has passed and you've only posted a few comments. Do they even remember you?
On your final page refresh, no one's on the website anymore. The company providing your flight didn't add any other website options, so you're stuck looking at bots while all your friends have moved on. Its the culmination of that feeling of quiet isolation. Even when you get off your flight, what's waiting for you? Lightyears away from friends, rebuilding your life, trying to reconnect long-distance with people who have barely heard from you in the decades. Its messy. Its complicated. Its an uncomfortable feeling to sit in but its the reality of things. Now you have to live with it.