This Brilliant Video Game Is Changing How We Think of the Migrant Experience Jack Smith - Tech.Mic
go to original October 9, 2015

Cloud Chasers (1.0) - Official Release Trailer (Blindflug Studios)

An upcoming game called Cloud Chasers puts you in the shoes of the migratory experience, and tries to impart much needed understanding of the desperation and hardship faced by those trying to make a better life far from their homes. The game, set to hit the App Store and Google Play on Oct. 15, has been in the works since last September — long before the world turned its eyes to the refugee crisis in Europe.

...The game is challenging, tragic and rich with stories pulled right from the modern migratory experience. The game takes place in a fictional world where the world's elite have escaped to a city in the clouds, harvesting water from clouds for themselves and leaving the rest of the world dying on a barren planet.

You guide a father and his daughter — Francisco and Amelia, for the missionary Francisco Hidalgo and the aviator Amelia Earhart — through the desert wastelands toward a point called the Spire, a traveling point between the world's surface and the cities above. The game's world is inspired not just by modern migrant journeys through the Middle East and "El Tren de la Muerte" in Mexico, but by future migration crises.

...Gameplay is divided between two experiences: an over-world where you play as Francisco, navigating the desert with Emilia in tow, exploring the randomly generated world filled with opportunities for bartering, random encounters with other migrants and story elements and a mini-game where Amelia flies around the clouds on a glider collecting water, the only currency in Cloud Chasers' dystopia and a constantly dwindling resource.

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