Project website: http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/prisoners-cinema/
Steam Greenlight Page : http://tinyurl.com/prisoners-cinema-greenlight
Project has been Greenlit! Thank you!
Publicity:
- Greenlit on Steam Greenlight
- Top-3 of Steam Greenlight Concepts in March, 2014
- Arcticle at Nivel Oculto (in Spanish)
Pittsburgh, PA – Spring, 2014
My Roles: Producer, Co-Designer, Sound Designer
Responsibilities:
- Co-designing the concept and experience
- Managing a team of 4 people
- Devising the schedule
- Conducting Scrum meetings
- Settling tasks for sprints
- Setting priorities
- Overviewing project scope
- Taking meeting notes
- Promoting the game
- Making trailers
- Sound design of the project
- Recording voice-overs with actors
Project length: 1 semester (15 weeks)
Prisoner’s Cinema is a narrative-driven, expressive game being developed by a student team at Carnegie Mellon University. It conveys to players the subjective sensation of living a life subdued by insomnia, and that evokes from players an empathetic response. Regarding empathy, we want players unfamiliar with feelings of alienation to gain an understanding of how an affliction like insomnia can impact the sufferer physically, mentally, and emotionally, and we want players who have experienced or are experiencing the existential, societal ramifications of sickness to understand that they are not alone.
Our project is influenced by modern, socially conscious games like Gone Home, Papers, Please, and That Dragon, Cancer, and other surreal and iconoclastic media sources, such as the films of David Lynch and the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre.
Must videogames be predicated singularly by overt notions of “fun”? Prisoner’s Cinema intends to challenge this conceit, and to expand the range of videogames as a medium, if even incrementally.
Platform: PC, Mac, Linux
Additional Hardware: Oculus Rift
Team: Nathan Baran, Alex Moser, Casey Ging
Advisors: David Culyba, Shane Liesegang
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