Video game developer Ben Gelinas' game 'Times and Galaxy' puts players in the shoe-analogues of a robo-intern for 'the solar system’s most trusted holopaper.'
Copychaser Games owner and video game developer Ben Gelinas' game "Times and Galaxy," set for release June 21 on consoles and PC, puts players in the shoe-analogues of a robo-intern for the eponymous publication, "the solar system’s most trusted holopaper.".It can be thankless work and involve shoddy coffee-shop Wi-Fi, makeshift lunches low in nutritional value and long stretches of sedentariness.
“There’s so much trauma, other people’s trauma, that you want to make sure you’re doing everything and everyone justice and still staying very true to facts and holding power to account.” “They needed somebody to take their fantasy lore in the ‘Dragon Age’ series and turn it into something referenceable internally” — like Wikipedia, he says.Gelinas, who was in his mid-20s at the time, was faced with a choice: stay in his permanent journalism job or jump into a potentially temporary gig in an industry he always loved.
“It’s like, this person has suffered a great loss or is traumatized, but in space. Or a dragon ate their loved one. How do you make that ring true in a piece of fiction, right?” “My only goal with the team I built was, are you weird and are you not a jerk,” he says of his studio, Copychaser Games. “And creatively, will you jell with us.Weirdness is everywhere in “Times and Galaxy,” a comedy adventure game where the player, as Reporterbot, is sent out to cover all manner of stories, including intersolar cat shows and space ghost funerals.An early assignment sees Reporterbot dispatched to a shuttle crash on an arid planet.
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