Made for the game: Thy Hideous Wake
Created for the BGS Game Jam 3 -
http://blog.buffalogamespace.com/2014/10/06/bgsjam3-has-ended/
Through this year's challenge, teams of designers, programmers and artists were tasked with creating games based around the theme of "Let's Get Weird." Thy Hideous Wake, is a game that analyzes the consequences of working toward preservation and the destructive costs that no one can avoid in order to maintain within our topsy-turvy, backwards society.
Through careful analysis and focused critique of the socialist regime, Thy Hideous Wake wittily remarks on Capitalism and its adverse effects on an ever increasing disparity between upper and lower classes, infusing a brilliantly cinical twist on a classic game mechanic to create a satirical message outling the faults and fralties of moving toward a common goal, without an established point of end. Some may feel inclined to believe that the best, and possibly only choice, was to never have embarked on the journey in the first place. This notion, however, is quite contrary to the state we are born into, where within, we are instructed to progress forward with the idea that we are progressing with the "common good" in mind.
