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SOMETHING SOMETHING SOUP SOMETHING was designed and written in 2017 by

Stefano Gualeni (@Gua_Le_Ni)

and was developed in collaboration with:

Isabelle Kniestedt – Art, programming

Johnathan Harrington (@FaeLD_) – Field research and additional design

Marcello Gomez Maureira – Web-design and additional programming

Riccardo Fassone (@Doktorplirtz) – Music and sound effects

Jasper Schellekens (@Indigitalgames) – Narrator, research support

It was developed at the Institute of Digital Games with the support of Maltco Lotteries.

Synopsis:

"The year is 2078. It has been a decade since Homo Sapiens-Sapiens perfected teleportation technology.

Rather than using teleporters to overcome scarcity or to oppose various forms of oppression, this new technology is used to further promote economic exploitation. We hire aliens to manufacture goods on their planets, and then beam the products of their cheap labour back to Terra.

Due to categorical differences in language and cognition, however, the aliens often misunderstand what humans ask them to produce..."