What Remains –
The Game
Release Party at V2_, Rotterdam
Donnerstag, 27.09.2018, 20.00 Uhr
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
wir freuen uns, Sie über die Präsentation und Veröffentlichung
des Computerspiels What remains – The Game von
Marloes de Valk in Rotterdam im V2_, Eendrachtsstraat
10, Rotterdam, NL, am 27.
September 2018 informieren zu dürfen und laden Sie
herzlich zur Release Party ein.
Die Medienkünstlerin Marloes de Valk war 2015 mit dem Projekt The Skor Codex als Teil der Ausstellung What remains, Strategies of saving and deleting zu Gast im esc medien kunst labor. Inspiriert von den Auseinandersetzungen rund um die Ausstellung im esc medien kunst labor begann sie die Entwicklung des Computerspiels What remains, für das sie 2018 den Hash-Award des ZKM Karlsruhe erhielt. Gemeinsam mit The Iodine Dynamics Team (Arnaud Guillon, Chun Lee, Dustin Long, Aymeric Mansoux und Marloes de Valk) hat sie das Spiel nun fertig gestellt.
Wir gratulieren!
Reni Hofmüller und Ilse Weber
What remains, Strategies of saving and deleting
Dear friends and supportes,
We are thrilled to invite you to the release
party of our game What Remains, the 27th of September
2018. After 2 years of hard work we are ready to present
the project during a festive evening at V2_,
Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam, NL.
Come and celebrate with us, play the game, download the
ROM or get your hands on a limited edition of the game on
an original NES cartridge!
The doors will open at 20.00, after the official launch at
20.30 there will be drinks and a performance by Utrecht's
punk rock influenced chiptune duo Men of Mega.
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About the game
It is 1986. You just came home from a skate session when a
Nintendo game cartridge falls into your hands. Excited to
find out what kind of game is on the cartridge, you visit
your friend who got a NES console for Christmas. You plug
in the cartridge and a strange list of encrypted files
appears...
What Remains is a darkly humorous 8-bit game for the
emblematic 1985 NES console, blending visual novel and
adventure elements in a story translating real events from
the 80s into an epic quest to save the world. As the story
unravels, your life in Sunny Peaks transforms
dramatically, and you start uncovering a dark secret
threatening everyone. But no despair, your best friend is
by your side... as well as a very helpful cat.
The game is developed for the original NES hardware. In
line with the project’s concept, the game is developed on
reused and repurposed cartridges. The ROM will be
available for free and can be played in your favourite NES
emulator. The source code and the tools created for the
development of the game will be published under a free
culture license.
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About Men of Mega
Utrecht's punk rock influenced chiptune duo Men of Mega
produce frantic, dancable music using the Nintendo
Gameboy. Combining massive breakbeats with comedic
melodies, they deliver an intense lo-fi electronic
experience that is guaranteed to move your feet!
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What Remains is kindly supported
by Creative Industries Fund NL, Democracy & Media
Foundation, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Akademie Schloss
Solitude, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, V2_ Lab
for the Unstable Media, WORM Pirate Bay, FoAM Kernow,
Varia, esc medien kunst labor and Hotel Mariakapel. Our
server is kindly hosted by Servus.
A special thanks to all the playtesters! You were awesome
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https://bleu255.com/~marloes
https://iodinedynamics.com/