The Memory without Record

This game was written as part of a studio project at The New School. Designed in 1 day for a "7 in 7" prototype sprint

https://medium.com/@jasonzhenli/the-memory-without-record-9216a75eea53

This game is a modification hack of The Tragedy of GJ237b. I wrote this as a speculation on the culture that could hypothetically form when the surveillance machine and its eyes and ears finally reach a state of total human assimilation. 

Today, our devices track more information about us than we can grasp. Even the non-usage, the time you spend away from the phone is monitored. As long as the device is with you, then you are a part of its network of knowledge. Human data is a massive collection with many masters and many bodies.

This games asks players to consider what happens when the body becomes the network of devices itself, infinitely reproducible, and protected in its numerousness. The Atlantean culture, used here in a mythological sense, stands in for the culture that builds its physical parts of materials that degrade. The people of that culture do not value the infinite as  data machines do. They understand the impermanence of things to be the correct way of things; something to celebrated, not fought against. How does that culture exist side by side with the most powerful data collection machine ever created? Play and we can find out.

Photo by Brian Yurasits on Unsplash