Rise

25.06.2017
Genre: ?
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.

Buy

Could be interesting

30.12.2016

Nocturne is a cyberpunk-themed experimental/exploration game. The goal is to simply wander around and enjoy the sights.

19.07.2022

You woke up on a desolate island up north, and your only company is a talking seal that insists on having you build cairns. Everything you didn't get to do is a first-person cairn-building game about commitment and validation.

15.08.2022

A game about emotional abuse. You are back at the waterfront. They are spilling everything out onto you. Drink up bitch. Good girl. For now, I am still your eyes.

03.02.2022

A little atmospheric reflection on not being able to travel.

10.10.2020

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.

01.06.2015

A game where you keep walking in a passage that lasts forever. There is no game over or game clear. Let's keep walking. * This game contains flashing lights or images that can be harmful to those with epilepsy or those who are photosensitive

15.06.2018

An essay on the game Moirai, distilled into a Bitsy experience.

placeholder
placeholder
placeholder