First Episode Of Dystopian Nightmare Orwell: Ignorance Is Strength Released - Videogames Blogs

First Episode Of Dystopian Nightmare Orwell: Ignorance Is Strength Released



I've got this feeling, somebody's watching meee... Maybe that's because I've been spending time with dystopian adventure game Orwell: Ignorance is Strength.

Just like in the first season, you're stepping into the shoes of a government official in a top-secret department of the Orwell surveillance program. Spy on your fellow citizens to defend The Nation from danger. That is what you're doing, right" Right"
The first episode (out of three) starts with a political crisis threatening to plunge The Nation and its neighbour, Parges, into violent civil unrest. An officer of the Pargesian military has gone missing and the only clue is a phone call...

And that's where you come in: through surveillance of phone calls, messages, websites, computers, and mobile phones, you decide what information gets to be processed by the Orwell system and what is irrelevant. This is your subtle way of shaping the story, and of course it is all kinds of ethically questionable - as if the name Orwell wasn't a bit on the nose already.
The way you're interacting with the Orwell system allows us a brief and rather alarming glimpse at how the things we may perceive as objective are, in fact, malleable and way too easy to tamper with. And even if such a system is thankfully still in the realm of dystopian science fiction, it feels not too far off, frankly. I'd love to elaborate, but there's really no way to talk about Orwell's intricacies without spoiling the fun.

Once again, ...
Source: indie games
URL: http://indiegames.com/

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