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The Animal Farm video game is coming in DecemberThis little piggy went to market…
This little piggy went to market…
Parents of RPS, good news: a lovely-looking game about a funny farm of silly talking animals is coming in time for you to put it on your kid’s Christmas laptop.Orwell’s Animal Farmwill launch on December 10th, the developers announced today, turning Georgie Orwie’s picturebook into a game where you make decisions to determine the fate of the farm. I just know I’ll be best friends with the big ol' shire horse, Boxer.
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While turning classic literature into video games is often a terrible idea (EA’s take onDante’s Infernohas a boss battle against a Cleopatra with tongues blepping out her nipplemouths), it can go well (80 Daysis so good in part because it rebuilds a familiar story in an anticolonial way). And some solid folks are behind Animal Farm. One of the teams behind it is Nerial, makers of theReignsgames, and renowned writer Emily Short is onboard.
“Animal Farm tends to be remembered for how its powerful characters destroy the truth through gaslighting, hypocrisy, corruption and greed – all distressingly recognisable to people living through the political events of 2020,” Short said. “But the book also says a lot about why altruistic characters support horrible outcomes, and how values like hard work, cooperation, and loyalty can be warped in obedience to unsound goals. Video games are powerful at telling stories about systems and enabling ‘what if?’ questions. My goal was to captureOrwell’s very relevant observations in a form that players can explore.”
I am certainly curious, at least.
Orwell’s Animal Farmis comingto Steamon the 10th of December. It’ll also be on pocket telephones then, so it could go on your kiddywinkle’s Christmas iPad too. Which it seems kids gets these days?
Disclosure: Emily Short wrote RPS’s interactive fiction column,IF Only.
