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Now I know the obvious that all of this virus stuff started before May 2020. However, it takes at the very least 1-2 years usually to make a video game. There's no way they could have made it in 2 months because March is when all this really kicked in with lockdowns masks etc...also BLM didn't happen until June. It could be a coincidence but it's a huge one. Read this description
Umurangi Generation
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Umurangi Generation
Umurangi Generation Logo.jpg
Developer(s) Origame Digital
Publisher(s)
OrigameDigital,
Playism
Director(s) Tali Faulkner
Composer(s) ThorHighHeels
Engine Unity
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release May 19, 2020
Genre(s) First-person, Simulation game
Mode(s) Single-player
Umurangi Generation is a first-person simulation video game developed by Origame Digital and licensed to and published by Active Gaming Media Inc. in English speaking territories, and published by Playism for Japanese and Chinese localization. Umurangi Generation was released for PC on May 19, 2020.
Does this sound familiar? A city’s in lockdown after a crisis, its citizens wearing face masks for their own health. Heavily armed cops patrol streets rife with anti-cop graffiti. Institutions have violated their compact with the people, and those in power came down hard on those who rose up against them. It’s real life around the world right now, but it’s also the setting for Umurangi Generation, a beautiful photo game that contrasts the peacefulness of taking photos and making art with the fear and violence of a police state, and which came out a week before the protests inspired by George Floyd’s murder went global. The societal issues that people are protesting are timeless, sadly, and embedded at the very foundation of our culture, which means a game like Umurangi will always be timely—at least until society is transformed to the point of being unrecognizable. Playing Umurangi over the last few days can be taxing, especially if you turn to games simply to shut out the world around you and ignore what’s happening. The added context of the last week also makes it exhilarating, though, and in a way that leaves me feeling a bit guilty and shameful—like a tourist who, instead of documenting real life oppression, is living in a fictionalized version of it. The events that inspired Umurangi’s crisis are environmental—designer Naphtali Faulkner’s mother’s house was destroyed during the bush fires that raged through Australia last year, and the game’s dark red skies hint at a different kind of trauma than the one currently happening in America and elsewhere. It’s one that still looms above all of society, though; if we don’t tear our own cities down first, the worsening climate problem inevitably will. Despite the different disasters, and even with its futuristic, sci-fi trappings, Umurangi Generation is a vital, current, powerful game that uncannily captures the mood of its time.
Umurangi Generation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigationJump to search
Umurangi Generation
Umurangi Generation Logo.jpg
Developer(s) Origame Digital
Publisher(s)
OrigameDigital,
Playism
Director(s) Tali Faulkner
Composer(s) ThorHighHeels
Engine Unity
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release May 19, 2020
Genre(s) First-person, Simulation game
Mode(s) Single-player
Umurangi Generation is a first-person simulation video game developed by Origame Digital and licensed to and published by Active Gaming Media Inc. in English speaking territories, and published by Playism for Japanese and Chinese localization. Umurangi Generation was released for PC on May 19, 2020.
Does this sound familiar? A city’s in lockdown after a crisis, its citizens wearing face masks for their own health. Heavily armed cops patrol streets rife with anti-cop graffiti. Institutions have violated their compact with the people, and those in power came down hard on those who rose up against them. It’s real life around the world right now, but it’s also the setting for Umurangi Generation, a beautiful photo game that contrasts the peacefulness of taking photos and making art with the fear and violence of a police state, and which came out a week before the protests inspired by George Floyd’s murder went global. The societal issues that people are protesting are timeless, sadly, and embedded at the very foundation of our culture, which means a game like Umurangi will always be timely—at least until society is transformed to the point of being unrecognizable. Playing Umurangi over the last few days can be taxing, especially if you turn to games simply to shut out the world around you and ignore what’s happening. The added context of the last week also makes it exhilarating, though, and in a way that leaves me feeling a bit guilty and shameful—like a tourist who, instead of documenting real life oppression, is living in a fictionalized version of it. The events that inspired Umurangi’s crisis are environmental—designer Naphtali Faulkner’s mother’s house was destroyed during the bush fires that raged through Australia last year, and the game’s dark red skies hint at a different kind of trauma than the one currently happening in America and elsewhere. It’s one that still looms above all of society, though; if we don’t tear our own cities down first, the worsening climate problem inevitably will. Despite the different disasters, and even with its futuristic, sci-fi trappings, Umurangi Generation is a vital, current, powerful game that uncannily captures the mood of its time.
