Abstract Ritual

RISE is a first-person vignette by Dr Dakoda Barker about living with chronic health conditions. The narrative is simple – the player has to get out of bed, get dressed and leave their house for the day. But Barker expresses the complexities of living with chronic illness by implementing intentionally hostile game design. The controls are unwieldy and incredibly demanding, forcing the player to use the controller in unexpected ways, to ask someone near them to help with the controls – or to make more conservative choices, like being too exhausted to bother with cool boots and settle for simple canvas sneakers instead. RISE’s challenging controls are designed to give the player insight into the physicality of living with chronic illness and pain, and the constant domestic negotiations that come with it.

Do not fear falling, you have cybernetic limbs. Use the scrolling coloured button on your ship to direct its course. Find the scrolling coloured buttons on the ground and use them to call your ship to pick you up. Humanity has been enslaved by unknown forces. You are a time traveller and a rebel outsider living high above the city. What can you even do in the face of such a situation?

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A little atmospheric reflection on not being able to travel.

A walking simulator in a hand-drawn environment. Meet plants with strong characters and respond to their incongruous requests. Please be careful where you step, your actions are not without consequences.