sonder
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
Controls:
-WASD move camera
-Click to set move position
Instructions:
-Complete your characters goals and avoid their fail cases
Premise:
In Sonder, you walk in the shoes of your average everyday Mookling. You have your own aspirations and fears along with unique appearances and connections. As you walk around, carrying on your Mookling life, you'll see other NPCs (Non-player character) carying on just as you are.
BUT WAIT.
Wrong.
You are no longer the Mookling you were before! You have now switched places with one of the very Mooklings you just past. Now your goals and weakness have switched. That very Mookling that was serving as an art peice has become a real person to you.
Yes, I know what you're thinking. "But, does that mean that the people who occupy my life, no matter how significant is AS REAL as I AM? That, even my worst enemy and my dearest friends are equally brothers to ME!?!"
No. Of course not. It's just a game don't take it that seriously.
Jam Site:
Jam year:
2014
Platforms:
MS Windows
Tools and Technologies:
Unity (any product)
Credits:
The Lannisters Send Their Regards
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