What's interesting is that the dead bodies are being delivered to recycling stations, which makes it a bit creepier. There is no one left in the city, and the dead bodies are being "recycled."
I did expect the game would end with everyone dead, but I expected the drones would just continue working and we'd see the delivered packages piling up, because there's no one to take them.
That would be more crazy at the end, because that would mean the robots where estimated what the people need and they could of died because the robots where delivering the wrong items.
"Population 0" There is actually a thing that if you checked on the rooftop next the to delivery station. There is a man with a goose who will remain even in the end. He seems to be able to sit just fine through acid rain and seems rather unbothered by everything. When I played myself I visited him frequently wondering if he'll do anything but nah, just a man with his goose chilling the entire game.
"Aren't drones loud?" I don't know, but what I do know is that those windmills being that close to the apartments would be like living next to LAX on holiday season. Non-stop noise.
There are drones in the making where they are quieter than normal. There's a video about it on Mark Rober's channel if you're curious about it along with other technological advancements.
There are toroidal props that are much quieter, but it could just be that the drones do not have microphones, because all they would hear is the wind buffeting against them
This developer loves some apocalyptic weather. Not a complaint, it's working for them. It ended about as I expected but the daily updates really did a good job of setting the tone with minimal work.
0:27 The haunting part is they never had enough drones to begin with. 1500 drones for approx. 700,000 people? They were just waiting to die out. I love this developer, I never get tired of apocalyptic/dystopian games.
It’s one drone for 457 people. 24*60/457 = ~3 minutes of drone work for one person per day. Around this time it takes to deliver a package and return (on a fast speed, not what other drones were showing, but MC drone showed it’s theoretically possible). Can a person live a day on contents of a package or half a package of the shown volume? I believe they can, especially if water pipes are still intact and only food is to be delivered.
An open world exploration game in black and white like this would be amazing. Traveling around a Ubisoft map and collecting lore on how the world collapsed.
I wish manly would've checked out the area in the low fog in the beginning... Also lmao at how he's so focused on burning bodies that he doesn't notice the city is buried
gameboy is always black and white. the original models had a green background, thus " green " GB aesthetics were born. the one you're thinking of is GB pocket, which ditched the green backscreen for a clear one, showing the Black and white colors properly. gameboy light was a GB pocket Japan exclusive with a light.
Not really? Black and white requires a full color display, a CRT, or a magnetic display like an e-ink or Etch-a-Sketch stuff generally speaking. Gameboy Pocket had the same dot-matrix display as the rest of the original generation Gameboys, it was just slightly bigger. The reason dot-matrix displays are green is typically because polarization film is dyed green. Green is used because the human eye picks up green the best in low light environments, so a little bit of light reflecting on the screen would provide a good contrast, at least that's how it's supposed to work. You can get blue or red or whatever, too, since polarizers come in a lot of colors. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Game-Boy-Pocket-Black.jpg/800px-Game-Boy-Pocket-Black.jpg m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91WO9VINoSL._SL1500_.jpg Most people remember the GBP as the Gameboy Classic, I guess, but the Classic just had a really really saturated green polarizer. It was kind of obnoxious. The Pocket has the same black on green as my TI-85 though. 🤷♀
You're right in the sense I have Gameboy Kiosks and to achieve the "Gameboy Colors" on the CRT they just slapped a color filtered plexi on it to emulate the green look.
gotta give it to him, KenForest makes brilliant dystopian landscapes, they feel massive yet decayed, and it makes you feel small in such a world, like you want to explore every nook and cranny, but you have a job to do. at some point i wonder if there is even a point in clearing out the city's bodies, there are more dead than alive, would just be easier to let them rot in their concrete hive-tombs, not that it would make a difference to whoever's alive and preparing the bodies
I interpreted that bit as corpse disposal and recycling as being automatically handled. It just continues on even after there's no one to do it for, perhaps in the hopes of later repopulation.
Its worth mentioning that its unlikely the population dropped completely to 0 in the end. Someone had to place the bodies on the roofs for the last deliveries. The game doesn't show any robots beyond the drones and forklift grabber things. That and the constant "unknown" drone errors makes me think the cities downfall was planned by someone. Also, 12:24 I think Manly is thinking of either the Gameboy Pocket or a virtual pet. Things like the original Pokemon Pikachu or even the VMU for the Dreamcast had similar color schemes at times.
I was thinking it’s probably just the very last survivor(s) packing up the dead bodies for cremation (which the drone only understands as liquidation). As for the last survivor(s) they either died on their own somewhere at home or down on the ground for a last taste of freedom. That or they stuffed themselves into the barrels, hence the arms sticking out which I’d assume is less likely because it would be pretty gross but considering how bleak the setting is it’s not out of the realm of possibility.
It could be their just old body's that have been left their when the drones started going down, or they could've started using manpower again as a last ditch effort but that would spike the death rate incredibly
I think the funniest thing about this premise is that building hermetic corridors between all the buildings or even tunneling between basements would've been 10 times cheaper than that drone rube goldberg machine
I wonder if the death of this city was done on purpose. Either maliciously because you'd think with how important the drones were they'd have no shortage of replacements. Or done because the people are tired of living like this (and the drones too apparently even though I thought they were controlled by people. The ending seems to suggest they might have some intelligence. It would also explain the mystery errors. The drones could tell the city was dying and instead of prolonging the suffering they decided to stop.)
I'm not sure about you, but I remember experiencing a similar dream to this game, in which three of my fellow classmates and I decided to quarantine ourselves inside an old Eastern European apartment block somewhere on an industrialized post-apocalyptic cityscape, which has been fully destroyed by a strange catastrophic event. The world is cold, harsh, gloomy, and impersonal, devoid of color and happiness. We've repeatedly struggled with insufficient living circumstances, with most of our food and other daily requirements having to be transported across the skies by delivery drones. Apparently, the world's governments appear to have entirely decimated the natural environment and urbanized everything to their infrastructure save for the ocean, which may have been made feasible by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and science.
Something I think would’ve made this more scary is if the bodies at the end has something that made them more personal. Fear of death comes from a loss of life, so adding remnants of life within the death would’ve hit home more. This could’ve been done by adding objects only living humans could care about in the hands of the dead. A stuffed animal, a wedding ring, a locket, a dog’s collar, a photo, etc. I think having something as simple as a photo in the hand of the last body delivery would’ve really elevated it. (But this was made in 72 hours and is fantastic so what do I know? lolol)
or giving the name of the people Like in early game you have : [transport food to appartment] [transport compacted trash to inconerator] and then [transport John Martin to incenerator] [transport Lilly Smith to incinerator] But the idea of simply calling them corpse also have an interesting result : it deshumanise the people, that i think is a part of the story : the company/government that is rulling all of this don't really care for human life and simply try to follow a protocol
The towers made me think of panopicons, a prison where the guards have 360° vision on all prisoners cells from the center of the building. Being from a game jam it explains the lack of stuff, but still entertaining and have potential as horror game. It major failure is not explaining from where the system error comes, was it the drone pilot, probably a human in a remote location, following th eorders lika a machine and it was someone virus? or the Ai got tired of serving humans every day, every hour, and destroyed its own limbs so to be unable to complete the job? The greatest question is, if everyone died in the city, 700k people, who put hthe bodies on the roofs? Hope goose and gooseman left the city before the end.
I wouldn't say this game has any major failures, for something made in 72 hours, it's got a great atmosphere and interesting premise that carries the game hard, props to the developer.
Theory time! I think that trash towers weren't actually an incinerator, but a portal. That'd explain the trash being teleported to the other game & how the footage was recovered.
So this is what wall-e have to gone through. Wonder who put the corpses on the roof? Since y'know, they can't move themselves. And who tell the drones to self-destroyed?
You can leave programmed commands to the servers to tell the drones what to do in case of situations like these, as for corpses, likely those still alive carried them, until they too became corpses and no one will pick them up
Sure does.. What's worse is not being able to lie in the grass shaded beneath a large Oak, Apple or Cottonwood. 😢 Well, once the bees go, we're not too far off, as it should be. Did you know there's only one species of bee who pollinates apple trees... at least the common ones in orchards, I believe. Do the bees, mother earth,and yourselves a favor and plant a little pollinator garden. You don't have to have a yard to do it. Grab a planter/pot, get some flower and herb seed specifically ones that flower and you'll be surprised how many beneficial insects visit! I was forced to relocate to the city, and I feel like a fish out of water. Nobody goes outside, everyone looks sad, angry, and rushed. It's tough for me to sleep as the birds start chirping at 3am because of all the light pollution. No wonder so many birds go extinct before other animals. We've not been kind to earth, I don't believe that it'll be kind to us in the coming years. One cannot blame her....
The camera hard-tilting during movement, while your body experiences zero inertia\g-force that would normally follow such a tilt. Also, seemingly high FOV with far-placed focus point, meaning stuff in your peripheral vision goes very fast and very far when the camera turns, which makes the aforementioned effect even worse. VR nausea (and car\boat nausea, to a lesser extent) is caused by discrepancy between what visuals your brain processes (you see your "body" moving through environment) and what your actual body feels at that moment (it feels that it's stationary and not moving anywhere).
_You were morbidly cheerful!_ This is a gruesome glimpse of a future I hope we never see. Reliance on delivery, even for the dead. I appreciated the attention to small details which brought home the sadness of the life society no longer enjoyed. Nice Easter eggs of nan and goose. This dev has interesting (if a bit depressing) ideas. Good game.
It's interesting how we have the massive neon signs for all these "Hospital" "Cafe" etc, places that nobody can use anymore because no one can leave their living space. I think it would've been neat if in one of the earlier days there's one "package" objective on top of a roof and you get there and it's a corpse you have to dispose of. A little shot of macabre before the end where /all/ the packages are bodies. Maybe also a more noticeable decline in drones before they're all gone, when there were half as many it was still hard for me to tell that their numbers were reduced. But overall really good atmosphere! And feels very complete.
Gotta say, I’ve noticed a few of these games have a structure that really reminds me of the citadel from half-life 2, the tower with all the cables looks rather similar to it.
"Welcome. Welcome to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my Administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by Our Benefactors. I have been proud to call City 17 my home. And so, whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to City 17. It's safer here." - Dr. Wallace Breen
I assume it’s because this idea of one giant tower over looking everything else and having all those cables all lead up to that tower, gives off the dystopian feeling
I was about to go to bed at a normal time because I need to get up at 5 in the morning for work, but that can wait. Manly coming in with the most phenomenal timing as per usual Edit: I woke up on time for work thankfully, and I surprisingly haven’t gone to bed yet from this morning lol 19 hours total of staying awake and going strong
People don't have to watch when a video drops. I don't. Unless people want the yt-r to see their comment like to suggest games to Manly. But your comment was nothing like that.
i found it interesting that your propellers are exposed, as opposed to the rest of the drones which have them covered probably just a thing to make your own model more readable
this reminds me of SCP 001: when day breaks, but humanity as a whole saw it coming and prepared the best they could also, imagine if from time to time you heard whispers from the "dead" bodies or screams when you burn them
Me: Would be interesting if someone died and their corpse is disguised as trash and have the drones pick it up and dispose of it. UI: Population 0. Objective: burn dead bodies. Me: Oh
I really did hate all the bad things that happened in quarantine. But goddam do I miss doing everything college related online and just doing the necessary ones in the campus. I also miss the amount of free time it gave me because i would finish stuff much faster and even had more time to read books and do my other hobbies.
Something I noticed that I wanna praise the dev for: I noticed that all of the other drone models have guards around their propeller blades but the player’s model doesn’t. Not only does seeing the propellers spinning read more as “drone” but it also provides more visibility to the player that guarded blades would’ve blocked. Dev could’ve just plonked some cylinders there and called it a day but didn’t! Also, the propellers move faster when the player moves! Great job dev!!
I seriously, seriously love this game's vibe and premise, I just feel like the thing that would have really made it in the end would be if the bodies weren't contained in tubs. I'm imagining you start on the final day to find that many of the rooftops have at least one vague blackened charred human-ish shape atop them, implying people were trying to escape/flee to the roof for unknown reasons (rather than something/someone disposing of the bodies in a semi-orderly way). There are more bodies than you could ever actually hope to collect, you are the only drone left in a city of the dead. That could also lead to added impact for the final twist -- if instead of 3-tasks-done, you had 4-5 (ensuring the player saw the number of bodylike shapes across the city). Parallel the atmospheric dread with the dread innately evoked in breaking the pre-established gameplay loop as you are faced with the potential of having to repeat this menial task over and over again for an unknown length of time. Then, when the game hits you with the self-destruct (interrupting yet another body pickup task vs. return home), you would actually feel a minute sense of release and freedom from responsibility, in line with the message of the final log. Just changing the final props and task number would have absolutely nailed that slow horror impact of extinction. I know this was a game jam game, and the fact that the dev made this in the amount of time he did is impressive as hell. The atmosphere is just *chefs kiss* perfect, I felt a little chill at the very start of the last day, with the color grading and the total absence of drones. That's why I so wish that the end props/pickups weren't... slightly comedic? A bleak, gloomy sort of minimal realism all the way to the end (of civilization). Just my thoughts ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'll probably leave a comment like this on the game page too. It's such a cool game, it really really intrigued me/stood out in its atmosphere.
To answer ManlyBassHere's question at 9:09 - normal drone propellers are VERY loud, yes. But there are new experimental developments in the design of the propellers, making them quieter and more efficient.
I never understand how you're just so relax and calm I mean it feels boring because it's not all "hyped up and energetic" but its really more entertaining instead of hearing a 16y old vlogger scream at me, have you ever like been scared / screamed in one of these videos?
Absolutely love the game. Would love to see the horror elements a lot more expanded and fleshed out, a lot more story and context if they decide to build it into a bigger game.
I thought this game/game style looked familiar. This dev made that raining down garbage game and the moth one, I really enjoyed both those games. Can't wait to see what else this dev has in store!
I love the touch that there's wind turbines, which are often a sign of green energy and a more progressive society, in this dystopia. Its a nice recurrance of the spinning motif and commentary on how naturally sourcing power isnt the only step in preventing ecological destruction.
That goose looked a lot like Wrinkle the Duck, from the channel 'Seductive'. The owner looks similar too. The guy takes his duck on various adventure around New York, and uploads it. It's very popular.
For being a horror game, this is so lethargic and satisfying. Sorta like power washing simulator it is just something I would love to just sit down and deliver packages.
This reminds me of the old Playstation 2 Spider Man game. Not the sequel, everyone knows that was a bop. No, the original one. There was always something liminal about swinging from low poly rooftop to rooftop, but knowing you'll never really understand what goes on inside those buildings or on the street below. It felt like Peter Parker's Purgatory Simulator. And this is bringing that feeling back. Such a charismatic build for a futuristic city so fraught with pollution and pandemics.... but you're a drone, what would you know about that?
@@tokiwartooth4404 delivering medicines and such from hospital to other hospitals or villages for emergency use (or become the common way to transport items), and many more.
@@tokiwartooth4404 Watch Mark Rober's video on drones delivering medicines in Africa. It saved lives cause the drones could go faster to some places than cars.
@@animehair05silently88 but the lights are still on, you would think they’d turn the lights off when they aren’t using it; would be a waste of power that could be used for the drones
2:44 During the lockdowns, some places like bars were allowed to be open more than more helpful places like gyms. C0vid killed more obese people. So I think this game is accurate and shows another part of dystopia of some people placing priorities to vices. Like in Aldous Huxley's book on a dystopia.
I think what happened is that either a supervolcano erupted or an atomic bomb exploded,and they're suffering from the consequences on the weather of either one or maybe even both.
Check out Mark Rober's video on drones delivering medicine in Africa. Drones can get to some places faster than cars. They're really helping people and saving lives.
The Gameboy you're thinking of was the Gameboy Pocket. The downsized first "update" to the Gameboy. The original Gameboy had that green-yellowish screen, with rather bad ghosting. The Pocket had a "proper" black/white screen with much better response time. The Gameboy Light was essentially a Pocket with backlight. After that came the Color, then the Advance, then the Advance SP (which had a frontlight, and an updated model with backlight), then they shoved in the Micro, which was just a small Advance. After that, it was only DS.
I'm working away with Manly in the background, attention fazing in and out of the video. I look back and just hear "Looks like the sky is peeing on us". Needless to say I was caught off-guard.
Why? Drones are cool. Check out Mark Rober's video on drones delivering medicine in Africa. It saves lives cause the drones are able to get to some places faster than cars. Don't like a game ruin things for you. I don't. Otherwise, then maybe avoid watching these kinds of videos if it's gives you anxiety.
Drones are awesome irl and they are way less autonomus and more manuannly controlled than they are being showcased by games or media. If you are starting out on this wonderful hobby, I recommend you to start on a simulator, or a toy drone of some kind that you won't worry about crashing (and yes it is quite hard to fly at first, you need to learn to fly) then you can process to more expensive and professional drones. If you want fpv, get good at the simulators first. But if you want a cameratography drone with all the altitude and location hold assists, a toy drone will be a good starting point.
Player drone seems to have open props whereas npc drones seem to have ducted fans. Ducted fans on drones irl usually makes their motion smoother and makes them more stable, but adds up quite a lot of friction due to air, therefore they have less performance. Cinewhoops utilise ducted fans for smoother footage, whereas 5 inch fpv racing/ freestyle drones have open propellers for more performance
That fact they still have police. What crime could you possible do bedsides, “Cyber Bullying” or trying to escape/ go outside. I mean they would die anyways do to the acid rain so idk.
