Have you ever thought of visiting an exhibit and taking a piece of it home to explore later? With the 23rd International Exhibition, you can probably do that thanks to it. Triennial Game Collection – Volume 2It’s a collection of five indie games that will be released starting July 12 and are available for free download from the Apple Store, Google Play Store, and Steam.
With a strong experimental connotation, five works explore the theme of the unknown in parallel with the installations of the International Exhibition: “The Unknown Unknowns. Introduction to Mysteries” is actually a title chosen by the Milan cultural institution and the works on display, plus five video games were commissioned for this occasion. to cure them all Pietro Righi RivaHe is the co-founder and creative director of the Santa Ragione development studio, and was directly involved in the creation of the first Triennale Game Collection, which Volume 1 opened with the 21st Exhibition in 2016 (and had a total of over 180,000 downloads).
As noted, the games were commissioned on this occasion and five indie game designers 23. They were asked to interpret the theme of the exhibition. Artists selected by Riva are from Optillusion (China / USA), Fern Goldfarb-Ramallo (Argentina), Nina Freeman from Star Maid Games (USA), Yijia Chen & Dong from Akwasi Afrane Bediako (Ghana) and Llaura McGee (Ireland) Zhou (Ireland). Dreamy feeling. five works that explore the concept unknown unknown unknown unknown unknown, each in a personal and friendly way, choosing different genres (from first-person adventure to puzzle game) and languages. As Riva tells us, the “Game Collection” is “designed to enable the public to enjoy the artwork that has been postponed compared to the traditional visit to the exhibition. A video game is something you can take with you, access anywhere and anytime”. And after trying them out in preview, the advice is to really create a few moments of stillness to enjoy immersion in the five works that are definitely in time but still intense and impactful. Application of Volume 2, WADE; other episodes will be released in the coming months but will always be part of the same app.
In fact, Riva says, there’s clearly too much creative freedom left in the realization of the developers’ work. technical part. The app, as mentioned, is unique (so you won’t have to download a single app and not five different games), but it also includes five artifacts created independently by the developers. For this reason, selected artists were provided with detailed documentation on how to make their own games and what limitations (ex: it can be done with a mouse on a PC, but do not include double-clicking in scenarios as it is not possible on smartphones). and tablets or, on the contrary, the use of screen flipping, as it is impossible on a computer). Unity was then used to aggregate the five experiences into a single app.
Here is the detail The five games collected in Game Collection Volume 2.
wade
[Disponibile dal 12 luglio 2022] Optillusion’s Yijia Chen and Dong Zhou pose together wade The surreal walk of a cosmonaut immersed in an underground river. The adventure is structured as a puzzle game with strong dream-like connotations, symbolically representing the various stages of grief: a set of emotions that gradually compels us to abandon anger in favor of more complex and rational elaboration of what we are experiencing.
A way to encounter the faceless hero in only one direction as well as swiping from left to right.
We Are Poetry
[Disponibile dal 29 luglio 2022] We Are Poetryperhaps one of the five most surreal works that asks the player to explore the surface of an alien planet (or the depths of a cosmos?), each populated by a multitude of nodes made up of a riot of light, color, and sound. The game has no unfolding and finite purpose of its own, other than forcing the user to discover seldom intelligible elements in a whirlwind of random changes, constantly destabilizing their expectations.
A fluid exploration of sexuality and the queer world.
grandfather’s legend
[Disponibile dal 26 agosto 2022] grandfather’s legend is an autobiographical work that owes its name to the way developer Nina Freeman called him grandfather (he uses the term “grandfather” because of his Italian-American roots). As a child, in his grandfather’s house, the hero often played with a sphere, which in this game has an absolutely magical structure: unlocking a secret key in the pedestal of the object, the player will be able to break the earth’s crust. and reshapes it according to his own taste.
Approaching countries that are inaccessible due to their borders or cultures, or keeping distance from others: everyone can create their own ideal world, and behind every choice there are reasons that only the sensitivity of the player knows.
Mine
[Disponibile dal 16 settembre 2022] Let’s move on to a first-person exploration adventure with Mine, by Ghanaian developer Akwasi Afrane Bediako. A long walk in a mine filled with natural materials and electronic components. The study reflects the lack of consumer awareness, particularly the real natural resources used for technology products and the virtual spaces that we experience every day thanks to these consumer products, that no one often associates.
Also, in recent years, Ghana and other African countries have faced a tough challenge against illegal mining. minerals and silicates used for technology production (such as coltan) and whose fraudulent extraction is causing the country’s water resources to decline.
A series that most of us don’t know.
Communication
[Disponibile dal 30 settembre 2022] To close the second volume of the Triennial Game Collection CommunicationAn interactive text adventure by Lllaura McGee. In the Italian version of the play, which boasts the original voice-over by the same author, the dubbed actress Marta Pizzogallo is the narrator, and the text adaptation is by the Italian team We Are Müesli. Inspired by the author’s biography, who since childhood wondered if there was anyone else but him, Contact chronicles his search for an alien lifeform trapped in a small Irish village with a similar sensibility to his then. An investigation that begins almost with a sci-fi debut and moves towards increasingly intimate and unexplored shores.
Source: Multiplayer
