The Indie Game Magazine August 2014 | Issue 40 | Page 10

has created visual landscapes around the files. The landscape is supposed to reflect how important each file is – the higher up something is, the more important it is supposed to be. Each media file has discussion forums attached to it – and you get points for contributing to the investigation. But something has gone wrong, in there. There was something in those files that … got out, somehow … escaped, into the Crowdscape system. The media files are a mixture of found footage film, documentary clips about space, journals, emails, and documents. The levels were all supposed to be normal landscapes, but something has changed them …It’s a game of interpretation, where the other players decide the value of your contribution to the investigation. What happened? Who killed Ingrid? What is Kathleen hiding? What is the Signal? IGM: I’m primarily a single-player gamer, so I’m not all that fond of relying on the community to progress my gameplay or story experiences. For gamers like me, what’s the selling point for Cloud Chamber? Christian: You can easily go through it without interacting wi