Homeplay = homework but for playing
Pick 3 games/projects to play in preparation for the next assignment.
For each of them post a 3+ paragraph response in which you analyze an aspect of it that could be useful or inspiring for your project.
Here’s some short first person games and immersive experiences made by solo developers or small teams.
They are all free or almost free, and they represent a variety of approaches to storytelling through immersive environments.
Some of them may be windows only.
Even in Arcadia by Phoebe Shalloway – a sci-fi immersive play about the launch of a new planet earth
Bellular Hexatosis by Neotenomie and Porpentine – a short sci-fi adventure about curing your sister
Orchids to Dusk by pol clarissou – a short experience about being stranded on a planet
I am not what remains by ompuco – a glitchy landscape
Sacramento by dziff (Delphine Fourneau) – an ephemeral landscape
How Fish is Made by Johanna Kasurinen, Jeffrey Tomec, Martin Halldin – a philosophical horror game
Anatomy by kitty horrorshow – a psychological horror about domesticity
Ode to a Moon by Colorfiction – a lovecraftian horror game
Apartment by Kalonica Quigley – a first person story about returning to your own apartment
Curtain by dreamfeel – a first person story about an abusive relationship
Atuel by Matajuegos – a playable documentary about an endangered watershed in Argentina
Gameworkers and guildworkers – by Spekwork – an immersive documentary about the labor of building virtual and real cathedrals
The Zium Garden by various artists – a virtual installation art exhibition
Neo brutalism of tomorrow – Moshe Linke – a virtual museum
LCD Dream Escalator by Hydezeke, alto, Mirecwd – a sequence of dream like vignettes
Songs of the lost – Paloma Dawkins Jlin and collab
That night steeped by blood river – Taylor Swietanski (2020)
If we were allowed to visit by Gemma Mahadeo and Ian MacLarty – an immersive concrete poem
قلبي قلبكم (My Heart is Your Heart) by Mohamed Chamas – an interactive poem
In the Pause between the Ringing by Studio Oleomingus – a rumination about completion, about territorial margins and about the haunting of bodies and memories that are translated across borders
Alien Caseno by Grace Bruxner – a recreation of a human casino
Morning Post by happysnake – a stylish 2.5D world
Pet the Pup at the Party by will herring – hidden object game and social anxiety
don’t look away from the colors by adam pype – minimalistic first person puzzle game