outside agent
by gastroterrestrial
Kollella has no colony, what will she make of herself? A short glimpse of a small life, and the missions that drive it forward.
- 5-10 minutes probably
- use mouse or space to advance, mouse or number keys to pick choices, h key to open history, and a key to enable autoplay
- choices can be optional/non-blocking
- mostly linear, two endings
this game was made with Super Videotome by freya
content notes
While real insect species and behaviors are used as inspiration, this game is intentionally exaggerated for the sake of fiction.
This game contains ant murder, ant war crime, and ant de-personalization/loss of sense of self.
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credits
some name inspiration taken from a Bundjalung dictionary
images
- L. humile by karenbennets- CC-BY-NC
- T. nitidulus by laz- CC-BY-NC-SA
- M. pilosula by reiner - CC-BY-NC-SA
- M. pilosula by daviaker- CC-BY-NC
- Unidentified insect (with C. consobrinus) by daviaker- CC-BY-NC-SA
- I. purpureus by cinclosoma - CC-BY-NC
- L. humile by ieremiel- CC-BY-NC-SA
sounds
- Dirt_Stake.wav by lzmraul - CC0
- The Rustle of a Bush by Montacue - CC0
- Wood Ants by naturenotesuk- CC0
Comments
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Forget the short runtime, this project has haunted me for a while now. It is deeply interesting and moving, and frankly feels like just the end-of-civilization narrative we should all be exploring right now. I have cycled through several times with different playstyles, and the aggregate quantum states experience here just makes it more powerful, doesn't puncture the story at all for me.
I highlighted this as a favorite in my Videotome article (part 1) in ChoiceBeat #15 on page 27: https://choicebeat.wordpress.com/issues-2/
This was awesome :)
damn...
would LOVE To see more in this world hell yeah
ant war crime
so good!
amazing!!!
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ah the characters and atmosphere are enchanting :) lovely read!
The writing and characters are glorious. What a joy to read ✨