The Last Games (TLG) is a 3rd person action game for PC and Console. Set in the near future, the year 2084 players must fight in the gladiatorial arena to earn citizenship in the safe zones of Humanity. Thanks to rampant climate change the Earth is mostly inhospitable to complex life. Humanity has a few zones set up around the world in the Arctic Circle. These zones are giant bio domes that protect their citizens and allow for food to be grown in greenhouses. The zones are controlled by administrators. Each zone is owned by a different faction family. These factions came about after the collapse of society from global famine and the rising sea level. Governments could no longer control the populace. In light of this breakdown of government influence, wealthy global corporations at the time seized the opportunity to bring the masses under corporate banners. Players must make their way through the wastelands to the City 4, fight in the arena, earn their citizenship, and perhaps save the rest of humanity in the process.
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Dome Concept
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The Firm Simulator (TFS) is a first person simulation game. In TFS players take the role of a lowly accounting graduate working at the bottom of the ladder in a prestigious Accounting firm. Players must navigate the office milieu, make contacts, make small talk at the coffee machine, endlessly mine through useless emails, and go to client meetings. All the usual office interactions and oddities. Through relationships with people, and completing quests/tasks for co-workers players can leverage and work their way to the top. Players can also choose to use subterfuge and dishonesty to make their way up the career ladder. Step on people and make it at all costs, but be aware of the consequences of your actions later in the game. All decisions make a difference and affect the outcomes and relationships of your character. NPCs remember how you treated them and if you were honourable or dishonourable in your actions. It's up to you to make it to partner how you get there is up to you.
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Trash Runner is a 3rd person endless runner for Android and iOS. In Trash Runner, players take the role of a robot that has been made redundant and thrown in the trash. The trash all goes down to a conveyor belt under the city and into a giant flaming trash compactor. Players start on the conveyor belt and have to run against it to avoid falling in the trash compactor. At the end of the conveyor various bits and pieces of trash fall down and start moving down towards the player. Players must jump and run around avoiding these pieces of trash from pushing them over the edge. Point pickups also appear randomly on the conveyor belt. Players must try to survive as long as possible while collecting as many point pickups as possible. The game is played with simple swipe to turn and tap to jump controls. Social media integration allows for high scores to be shared via facebook etc.
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- Simple controls
- Social media integration
- Endless runner – no two games are the same\
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Temple Run (2011)
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.imangi.templerun
Echo is a mobile game for Android and iOS. Echo is a simple top down flat 2D style puzzle game. Using simple swipe and tap controls on the screen players direct sound in a direction with a certain intensity/volume. The aim is to guide the sound waves into certain zones. As the game progresses to later levels, the zones get smaller and more difficult to reach. Surfaces also change in material and can affect the way the sound waves bounce and retain intensity. In some levels moving surfaces and objects also start to interfere with the players sound waves. In the most difficult levels there will also be energy fields which are zones where the players sound waves are scattered or manipulated requiring the waves to travel through a 2nd zone before the final finish zone. High scores will be kept in leader boards that are connected to social media so players can share their scores with friends or see where they rank in the world.
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Waves (2011)
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http://www.theawl.com/2012/04/the-unfunded-video-game-about-shooting-light-waves-through-the-galaxy
Dog is a 3rd person adventure mobile game for Android and iOS. In Dog, players can choose their own Dog avatar. Players can choose from heaps of different breeds, and like most RPG character creations, players can choose every trait about their Dogs personality and demeanour. Once players have a Dog avatar, they are let loose into a city for dogs. Similar to games like Goat Simulator, players can explore the city with their Dog, meet other Dogs, sniff their butts, and do other Doggy type things. Players can challenge other Dogs to races, or to steal food from humans. Players can take advantage of their Dogs sense of smell and hearing. This allows players to hone in on mission items or locations, and even find hidden treasure buried around the city! The game is rendered in a simple cell shaded style. With simple swipe and tap controls to allow all players of different ages and skill levels to play.
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- DOGS!
- Butt sniffing
- Tail chasing
- Multiplayer and Coop
- Open world
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Dog's Life (2003)
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http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/dogs-life-review/1900-6105610/
Shapeless is a 3rd person casual action game for Console and PC. In Shapeless players have to help guide an amorphous blob called Rob. Rob cannot see. However the bigger he grows the more his gelatinous mass can touch, the more he can “feel" his environment, and thus the further he can see/sense. In order to grow Rob must consume organic matter. Rob can eat pretty much anything, the denser the material the longer it takes his mass to absorb it. Players must guide his mass around by dragging on it. As Rob grows, the Earth governments will try to stop him at all costs. Players must consume as much matter as they can in order to be large enough to fend of attacks from the military. Multiplayer modes allow for coop and PVP matches set in big sand box open world cities with many players trying to be the biggest blob on Earth.
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- Casual simple controls and gameplay
- Multiplayer
- Open world sand box
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The Blob (1958)
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Sentient is a 3rd person puzzle and adventure game for PC and Console. In Sentient, players are put into a vast open world sandbox city. There are thousands of NPCs and thousands more objects/props to interact with. As the spirit of Sentience players must help people, solve puzzles, and overcome obstacles in the open world by projecting sentience into inanimate objects like dumpsters, cars, chairs, toys etc etc. Each object or prop, once sentient, will be limited in its movement and usefulness based on what kind of object it is in the first place. Eg a sentient hammer is more effective at breaking things than a sentient teddy bear. Players must not only help solve problems throughout the city but they must do so without people getting too suspicious. Multiplayer coop and side games such as hide n seek, or even death matches are available for online play.
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- Control, combine and use thousands of different objects and props
- Funny situations and challenging puzzles
- Multiplayer
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Rubber (2010)
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https://cinemaknifefight.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/rubber-2010/
Paranormal Cleaners is a 3rd person sim game for Console and PC. In Paranormal Cleaners players must clean up various scenes and locations that are haunted, possessed or cursed. In the beginning of the game the scenes the player needs to clean up will be small apartments haunted by slightly annoying poltergeists who will try to hinder the player from tidying up. Players have a set timer to complete each job. Extra cash is awarded for finishing early, and cash is taken out of the prize pool for failing to finish. Cash can be spent on better equipment, equipment is made up of cleaning items and paranormal detection/repression devices that give players respite from the paranormal events happening in each level. Later levels start to get a little more difficult as players need to clean up Haunted mansions, strange laboratories and various other more complex environments. In these later levels the paranormal activities escalate dramatically, making the players job of cleaning up much more difficult and terrifying. Co-op mode allows 2-4 players to join together as a cleaning crew and tackle even more challenging paranormal situations in bigger scenarios and environments.
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- Co-op cleaning fun
- Crazy scenarios and hilarious situations
- Simple gameplay
- Workshop support – user generated content
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Viscera Clean up Detail (2014)
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Rooftop Runner is a mobile endless runner for Android and iOS. Rooftop runner is a side scrolling flat 2D style game where players must run along the rooftops jumping from building to building. Players compete to try and set the longest run distance. Controls are very simple with players simply tapping the screen to jump. Forward movement is automatic like in mot endless runner games. Visually the game is very simple with flat colors. The game also simulates night and day cycles which cycle as the player progresses along, changing the colors of the environment. As players set new personal bests or records they are awarded with points that function as in game currency. This currency is used to customise player's avatars, customise color palettes for in game environments and to purchase more lives (ie Candy Crush). The game is also tied into social media apps. Players are rewarded with in game points for sharing scores, tweets, snapchats or instagrams relating to their Rooftop Runner experiences.
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- Social media integration
- Simple controls
- Addictive gameplay augmented with other apps
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Welcome to Night Vale (2012)
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http://www.chicagonow.com/geek-girl-chicago/2015/05/welcome-to-night-vale-live-review/
The Longest Journey (TLJ) is a space sim/strategy/logistics game for Console and PC. Set in the near future, Earth is on the brink of collapse. Millions have starved to death, climate change and human interference has set the Earth into disarray. There is no way to save our home, so we must find a new home in the stars. Players in TLJ are tasked with planning a long distance space flight from Earth to a new home planet of their choosing. At the beginning of the game players must find a star, solar system, planet and/or moon of their liking. There is limited information on these destinations, less information on those further away or block by other cosmic events. Once a destination is chosen, players must construct a craft from modules and pieces. Each piece adds weight and power cost, but also adds benefits inherent to the type of module added to the craft. From there a crew must be chosen. A walking crew and a sleeping crew, how many are sleeping vs how many are kept awake for the journey, will they even live for the entire journey, will they have to procreate on the way and train their children to continue the journey? Will you take scientists, or artists? Players must choose not only the best most varied crew that will perform the best and work together, but must also decide who amongst those left of humanity that will be put into cryostasis and taken to their new home. Once there players will need to land their craft safely, or what's left of it. And then try their best to start humanities first colony on our new home planet.
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- In depth logistics management
- Modular craft construction
- Dynamic crew and social systems simulation
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Kerbal Space Program (2015)
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Jump Scare is a game for Console that uses camera motion tracking and facial recognition. Players are put into different scary scenarios such as haunted houses, creepy cemeteries, and various other scary scenarios and environments. Scenarios can also be customised to include certain a monster/s/enemies. Once players are happy with their scenario and environment they run the simulation. The game then procedurally generates a random environment which the player is moved through on rails. The player can look around and investigate things, however they cannot move the actually camera around, just the view. As the scenario unfolds certain scares and events will happen. When these do happen, the camera tracks the players face and movement to see if they were scared, and how badly. At the end of the scenario, the player's constitution score is added up. This is calculated by adding up how much they react to jump scares. Highscores are added to the leader boards, which show players who is the toughest and least easily frightened. The game also takes photos of players reactions and these can be shared with other players or friends.
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- Jump scares galore
- Facial recognition and tracking to measure player fear
- Social photos to share scares
- Level editor; scare your friends!
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Outlast (2013)
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Swim!Swim!Swim! (SSS) is a mobile game for Android and iOS. SSS is a top down 3rd person game that uses tapping and swiping motions to emulate certain swimming stokes on screen. Players must use their fingers to copy the motions shown on screen. The faster and more accurate the player can copy the movement will determine their speed. Rhythm is important and combined with speed and accuracy will give the player the best stamina over the course of the race. Combos and extra points are awarded for swim streaks with good pace/form. These points can be spent on items and skins. In App purchases such as new avatars and outfits are also available. SSS is a multiplayer game as well, with plenty of challenges and races to compete with friends through social media. Players can also spectate and bet their hard earned in-game points on races to earn even bigger payouts.
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- Simple controls
- Social multiplayer
- Spectating and betting in-game points
- In-App purchases and DLC
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Summer Athletics (2008)
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Panspermia is an adventure game for Console and PC. In the year 2024 an unknown object collides with Mars. The impact is catastrophic. Large chunks of Martian rock are flung out into space. Some of these collide with the Earth. Human cities lie in ruin, civilisation as we know it has been destroyed. The few humans that are left live in underground cities, no one dares venture onto the surface world. Dust from the impacts on Earth have cloaked the sky, Day and night have become the same. Players take the role of Riley. Riley is a young man, out to prove himself in a dangerous world. Riley was young when the impacts happened. But has grown up in a cruel world where the people are forced underground. Riley is a scavenger, small and nimble enough to make quick dashes close to the surface. When Riley finds meets a strange outsider called Wilhelm the two are thrust into an epic adventure that could be humanities last hope for a fresh start.
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I am Alive (2012)
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The Real Boy (TRB) is an adventure stealth game for console and PC. TRB follows the story of AI researchers in a National Robotics and Machine Intelligence Lab. The scientists have been working for years on creating an AI that can pass the Turing test. When a project lead discovers an anomaly in their database, he shocked to find a rogue AI living in the sub directories of their files, some of which are years old. The AI takes the form of a young boy. The scientist decides to keep the AI secret and they become close friends. When the AI is discovered by the other scientists they report it to their government benefactors. The AI and the scientist have no choice, and no way of physically escaping the research facility. The young scientist knows that he wont be allowed to leave alive. He trusts the AI and allows his brain to be uploaded into the network with the AI. Together they must try to escape from the Facility digitally, by moving and hacking from server to computer to terminal. On their way out of the facility they learn about the secret projects that have been conducted there and the cruelty inflicted upon human and non-human subjects alike.
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- Stealth gameplay in cyber space
- Hacking and hiding in files to avoid sentient code looking for them
- Explores the ethical issues surrounding AI
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Introversion (2010)
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The Lie is a mobile game/app for Android, Windows, and iOS. The Lie is a video/picture chat app that functions similarly to Snapchat. Users can add friends or upload videos/pictures to a general wall that is sorted through # tags. The main point of difference in The Lie is… lying. The aim of the app/game is to record a video or take a photo (captions are optional) and then choose whether what you are depicting is a lie, or truth. This is sent to friends, who view the message and then decide whether it is a Lie or Truth. Points are awarded for correctly choosing whether the sender has told a Lie or Truth. The points add up to give the best liars and lie detectors a spot on the world leader boards. These boards are linked to Facebook and other social media for full integration into peoples social media lives.
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The Chip is a 3rd person action game for PC and Console. In The Chip, players control a sentient chip that has escaped from the kitchen pantry. Your mission is to escape from the house without being spotted and eaten. There are a human family to deal with, as the Chip players can manipulate the environment, climb, swing and jump around. Players can also use the chip to incapacitate the humans or kill them. There are also the family pets to contend with. As the game progresses each level or house gets more complex and difficult to escape. Certain levels will have events like house parties going on, which make the escape that much more difficult. At the end of each level points are awarded for best kills/incapacitation, or for sneaking and not being spotted at all. A co-op mode allows players to bring in a friendly Chip buddy to help them escape. Co-op levels will require extra effort and co-operative actions from players to make it out in one piece.
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I am Bread (2015)
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Little Barbarian is a mobile game for Android and iOS. In little Barbarian players create their own little Barbarian and choose skills/perks to create a character. The gameplay is in a simple touch and swipe style. Once players have their own little Barbarian they must send him out into the world. This mechanic is similar to Fallout: Shelter, where players can send survivors/vault dwellers out into the wasteland to search for items. In Little Barbarian this mechanic is refined to encompass the entire game. Players will have to equip basic items and let their Barbarians go. From time to time prompts will be sent to the player to check in on their Barbarian to make decisions or check on loot. If the player doesn't respond to these prompts in time, the game chooses for them. Permanence of choice is the main element in Little Barbarian. Players can call their Barbarians home to store loot and save progress. While it's not easy to survive, it's a lot more forgiving at lower levels to give players a chance to level up. The main element of permanent decision making and consequence of action are active from the get go, so decisions or lack thereof, even early in the game, can have lasting consequences or not come around again until much later in the game.
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Fallout Shelter (2015)
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Little Barbarian
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"Where Am I?" (WAI) is a psychedelic puzzle game for VR on console and PC platforms. WAI puts the player in virtual spaces that are technically impossible to build, using 4 dimensional space and perspective trickery. The player then needs to find their way out of the situation or space. Early on the experience will throw the player in fairly simple environments. Sometimes the player is shrunk or the world is shrunk around the player. Movement may influence the space, meaning some puzzles are solved by simply looking around in a certain order at certain things to solve/see the answer. Whereas other puzzles would involve player movement without moving the player view/camera at all. The game could also be used to demonstrate to students how spaces operate when there are no restrictions in terms of dimension. Ideas can be tested and situations modelled that cannot be done in real life, with the addition of VR the player can now enter these spaces and manipulate them to learn from them.
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Miegakure (2015)
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Runaway train is a mobile game for Android and iOS. Runaway Train is an endless runner with a twist. In Runaway Train, players must keep a 'runaway train' on the tracks and away from disaster by building the track in front of it as it moves along, dodging obstacles, crossing rivers and canyons. The game is a combination of Tetris like puzzle solving, and quick thinking adrenaline fuelled endless running like Temple Run. As the player gets better and progresses they will unlock more complicated track pieces that will be necessary for the increasingly difficult terrain and obstacles the runaway Train will face. High scores and streaks will be rewarded with XP, or the player can choose to buy XP through in-app purchases. New skins and levels will also become available over time through DLC. Players can also play through social media logins which will track their progress with friends through social leader boards.
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Tetris (1984)
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The Clone is a puzzle adventure game for console and PC. In The Clone players must try to get their avatar across various obstacles. Some obstacles can be conquered easily; others require the player to clone themselves in order to succeed. Puzzles such as spike pits that can be filled with the bodies of clones to help the player across, or swings made up of many clones holding hands will be required tin some of the harder puzzles. However, the catch is that the more clones that are made, the more they degrade and some will be unable to move or think, others will be missing limbs. This leads to an interesting balance of cloning to simply finish a puzzle, or conserving clones in order to keep them from degrading. The Clone also has a Co-op mode, where the 2nd player takes control of the all the clones at once, while the 1st player controls the one original avatar.
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The Swapper (2013)
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http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2014/07/23/review-the-swapper-ps4/95443/
Helios is a 1st person Sci-fi thriller/adventure game set in the year 3596 for console and PC. Helios is the name of the Exo planet that the majority of the human race now reside on. Earth has long been left behind, a toxic planet that serves only as a reminder of how our selfish human nature failed to protect our home. In Helios players take the role of Lahara, a low ranking Sceptre of the Human council. Your job is keep law and order on Helios main orbital mining platform the Osiris. After a series of brutal murders on the mining station, Lahara is tasked with the investigation, reporting back directly to the Council. When Lahara arrives on the mining platform, things seem odd. People are behaving differently, the air is thick, the atmosphere strange. What is happening on this facility, who is responsible for the murders, and why has the council taken such a keen interest in what's happening here?
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Dead Space 2 (2011)
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Band Manager is a mobile game for Android and iOS. In Band Manager, players must scout through hundreds of fictional bands in order to find the best band to manage. Once they have a band they must organise marketing, publishing, distribution, merchandise, and various other managerial tasks to ensure that their band gets the most publicity, best record/merch sales, and biggest shows. Management is broken up into Meta tasks like tour planning, and distribution. And a day to day management like sound checks, security, band member relationships and travel. The aim of the game is simply to make as much money as possible, while maintaining overheads and costs, and at the same time growing the market/popularity of your band. Poor management will lead to unattended gigs, poor record sales, and eventually problems within the band can boil over. Band members can quit, start other bands or the band can simply break up.
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Football Manager 2015
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http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/football-manager-2015-review/1900-6415936/
Safe Word is a 1st person horror experience that uses the Occulus Rift. Safe Word is set in a sprawling urban environment. At night, players are being stalked by an ominous figure. The figure never stops following the player, always slowly walking towards them. The player must run, hide, and avoid the figure for as long as they can. The figure always knows where the player is, so hiding is only temporary. The only way to survive is to find out why the figure is following you by investigating places of interest around the city during the day. The city itself is huge and open world allowing the player freedom to interact with objects and enter any building. There are no other people around. As players figure out more about the mysterious figure that stalks them at walking pace each night, they learn about why they are in this city alone, and why they are being stalked.
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Slender man
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Space Jazz is a 3rd person adventure RPG for console and PC. Space Jazz is a linear RPG with heavy story engagement over player freedom. The story follows a Space Jazz band and their adventures around the galaxy. Set in the year 2386, Space Jazz is the most popular of music amongst the galactic races. When the bands instruments are stolen from their space van in the middle of a sold out club tour of the local moons the band resort to borrowing money from a shady loan shark. However they money turns out to be counterfeit galactic credits. Stuck on Titan, with no money and the loan sharks creditors chasing them down, they must find a way to get their van and gear back. Their journey ultimately leads them to a purpose far greater than Space Jazz, a journey that will change the entire galaxy forever.
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Cantina band (Star Wars 1977)
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The Fall is a 1st person thriller/puzzle game. Players take the role of an Astronaut. The game starts by throwing the player in the deep end. Their capsule has malfunctioned. They have dropped from continuous orbit. They are plummeting towards the Earth, albeit in a collapsing elliptical orbit. There are less than 24 hours before the capsule will crash into terra firma. 24 hours is all the player has to figure out how to save them self, if they even can. Players will need solve puzzles and fix what they can to try and restore their orbit. Radio contact with ground control helps the player along, and also allows an insight into the life of the astronaut, their family, their friends, and their background as they talk to people close to them to say goodbye. All these story elements tie into the situation they find themselves in, and the puzzles they need to solve to save themselves.
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