Ground Up
Elaine sold her body years ago, and now the corporation that owns her is going under. She remains trapped on Io with nothing but mining drones to keep her company. Her body is nothing without these drones.
Features
- Tragic transgender bodily alienation
- Polaroids get saved to your hard drive (only in the downloadable version!)
- Decrepit mining drones
- Flares
Content Warning
Suicide, gore, mentions of transphobia
Credits
BoolBurg - Level Design, Programming
Snek RK - Programming, Writing
red_kino - 3D modeling, Sound Design
greyplay - Sound Design, Programming, DJ
Ground Up was made in a tiny apartment over 40 hours while blasting hard techno and classical music.
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Holy shit this is so sick! The controls feel so mechanical and meticulous it was easy to feel you were operating a drone, love that so much. The environment was so evocative, the spaces were so varied and full of character and the lighting made it feel so abandoned and mysterious. What a vibe. The writing is fantastic, and frustratingly realistic and heartbreaking, and the ending is all of those things as well. The vapid corporate speak never fails to rile me up lol. The sound design was also really nice adding to the abandoned and mechanical atmosphere, the occasional haunting moan echoing through the place was also fitting especially by the end.
So impressive to me that this was made in 40 hours.
Also, maybe this is a bug, but I went down the super deep hole and there didn’t seem to be an collision at the bottom so I was able to clip through the map.
Such a cool game, very inspiring.