2251 – Norco (2022 video game)

spacetime coordinates: near-future Norco, Louisiana / other portions of the state around New Orleans.

NORCO is a text-based point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana.

The game’s developer goes by a pseudonym, Yuts, derived from a nickname for his grandfather. Yuts spent his childhood and some of his later life in Norco. Growing up, Yuts was “frightened yet transfixed” by the landscape in and around Norco, which has been shaped by the petroleum industry and hosts a major Shell facility which has twice experienced catastrophic explosions.

The game grew out of a multimedia documentary work by Yuts and a friend, started in 2015.^[3] The work incorporated writing, interviews, and audio-visual components, focused on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on Louisiana and its landscape. In addition to Yuts, members of the development team, Geography of Robots, include Yuts’ sister, Aaron Gray, Jesse Jacobi, and pseudonymous musicians fmAura and Gewgawly I. Part of the multimedia project was a side-scrolling game in which a robot attempts to enter a refinery in Norco; this game became Norco, and the earliest version of the current game was created in 2016. Yuts and Geography of Robots designed the game in the pixel art style. Yuts relied on internet research to teach himself how to create the illustrations he contributed to the game.

Gewgawly I was Yuts’ original collaborator. Gewgawly I and fmAura worked to design the game’s soundtrack, attempting to “capture the… mood and ambience” of the River Parishes. The game incorporates field recordings by a friend of the development team, Matt Carney, taken around Baton Rouge.

Norco will be the first game in a trilogy.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (MINIMUM): OS: Windows 7 / Processor: Intel i5 or AMD equivalent / Memory: 4 GB RAM / Graphics: Intel Iris/AMD Vega 8 or equivalent / DirectX: Version 10 / Storage: 4 GB available space

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Superduck: Superduck is, what else?

A network.

A system of signals.

Wireless communication of locusts and frogs. Cypress roots. Disease vectors.

Internet of flesh. Biomimicry. Internet of internet. Radio towers.

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1958 – Big Fish (2003)

spacetime coordinates: 2003 >> 40’s 50’s 60’s 70’s 80’s Alabama

Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Tim Burton, and based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Daniel Wallace. The film stars Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Steve Buscemi, and Danny DeVito. The film tells the story of a frustrated son who tries to distinguish fact from fiction in his dying father’s life.

Big Fish was shot on location in Alabama in a series of fairy tale vignettes evoking the tone of a Southern Gothic fantasy. (wiki)

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1751 – Synchronic (2019)

timespace coordinates: 2019 (+) New Orleans

Synchronic is a 2019 American science fiction horror film directed and produced by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead and written by Benson. It stars Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan. (wiki)

Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

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