1,000 Heads Among the Trees
2015/Aaron Oldenburg
Visit the real town of Cachiche, Peru, to spend your nights searching for spirits and taking photos. Discover a generative narrative as you show your photos to local people who describe what they see in them.
About this game
Visit a quiet town in the Peruvian desert at night searching for spirits and taking photos, then sharing these pictures with locals who free-associate based on them. This game is based on time I spent with a brujo in the desert suburb of Cachiche, a town that was founded by witches during the Peruvian Inquisition. Here descendants of witches still live and continue to practice traditional healing and fortune-telling. FEATURES • Explore a 3D world with ambient sounds, voices and textures from the Peruvian desert, a living environment at night. • Use your photography as a means of conversing with non-player characters, revealing what they see as well as what they imagine. • See yourself as an outsider, lurking in alleys, eavesdropping on conversations, going where you're not supposed to go. • Watch the forces of tourism at work and the conflicts rumbling beneath the surface of a small town. • Discover that your camera is not just a passive recorder, but that its act of observation can change the environment. • Complete progressively more abstract quests and delusional journal entries. • Export and share your photos.
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