Two days ago the Swedish indie game developer Erik Svedäng released a blog post that took gamers by storm. He and his four associates had this idea for an adventure game that is like nothing we have seen before. The game is called else { Heart.break() }. A lot of programmers will be familiar with the characters in that game title, and there is a reason for that. It’s been in the works now for over two years, and thanks to the Nordic Gaming Program, they are officially one year into the actual production of the game. While the game is said to still be at least one year away from completion, the buzz on the internet is strong. Erik describes the game as:
“a game about being able to change reality. It is set in a mysterious world made up of computers and their code; a place where bits have replaced atoms. The player – who is assumed to have no previous knowledge about programming – gets access to the code and is taught by other characters how to modify it. As the story unfolds the possibilities of what can be reprogrammed, hacked and controlled increases greatly. Eventually the inner parts of the gameplay code are revealed and the barrier between our own world and the game starts to dissolve.”