{"id":418,"date":"2020-08-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crdmrn.com\/index.php\/?p=418"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T10:53:10","slug":"whisper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crdmrn.com\/index.php\/whisper\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I developed <strong><em>Whisper<\/em><\/strong> as part of my Master Thesis project at the <a href=\"https:\/\/colognegamelab.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cologne Game Lab<\/a>. It is a short interactive experience about the way we perceive reality in games, and the contrast that may occur if we are in an environment where our senses receive inputs on a different level of detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assuming that <em>\u201cwhen you can\u2019t see them, things are what they sound like\u201d<\/em>, players will be able to change things\u2019 behaviors by swapping the sound they produce; though the game aims mainly at being a (possibly) mind-bending experience, it also features challenging puzzles to test the limits of its weird reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-soliloquy-soliloquywp\"><div aria-live=\"polite\" id=\"soliloquy-container-376_1\" class=\"soliloquy-container soliloquy-transition-fade  soliloquy-theme-classic\" style=\"max-width:770px;max-height:433px;\"><ul id=\"soliloquy-376_1\" class=\"soliloquy-slider soliloquy-slides 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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the goal of the game is mainly to let the player experience something hardly doable with other mediums, this doesn&#8217;t happen without actual interaction: puzzle solving is a core feature that helps the player immersing in the weird reality of the game, taking his characteristics to the extreme and paradoxical consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a solo project, this gave me the chance of experiencing every part of game development from concept to implementation trough programming, as well as communicating with professional figures to whom I outsourced some aspects of content creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After graduating I kept on developing and promoting Whisper, with the help of two classmates for sound design and dialogues writing. <strong><em>Whisper<\/em><\/strong> was showcased in Vienna (Radius Festival) and Milan (Game Over Festival) in 2016, before being chosen as a Honorable Mention in the 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