10000 YEARS

October 29, 2016 10:10 PM

10000 YEARS
A found poetry/ruins exploration game about a mysterious facility in the desert, inspired by this article about creating a nuclear waste disposal site so that it's left undisturbed for ten thousand years. The trailer can be found here!

Role: Creator

posted by brecc (2 comments total)

That was a really neat experience! Worth playing for the ASCII textures alone.

I love the mumble audio for the human dialogue, BTW.
posted by ignignokt at 10:18 AM on October 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

This post about the infamous WIPP design document was one of the first really fascinating articles that drew me into reading MeFi on the regular, and this is a brilliant and haunting interpretation of that grim thought experiment. Excellent work!

(One tiny nitpick: the "type IRL to advance text on the screen" mechanic is a fun 30-second gimmick, but not as the only way to progress through a game. Maybe tweak it so that holding down a key does the same thing?)
posted by Rhaomi at 10:16 PM on November 17, 2016 [2 favorites]