Cyborg Games

Game Title and URL

Swept Away

https://machinescreen.itch.io/swept-away

Designer

Machine Screen

Goal of the Game

The idea is to chase after someone that you had a small but in your mind meaningful interaction with

Game Mechanics

You must move through the crowd in order to catch up with the other person as the crowd pushes you back every time you run into someone

Controls

Arrow keys to move through the crowd

Themes

The fleeting connections that we might imagine when we interact with different people and the struggle to continue some actions before the people continually get “lost in the crowd”

Is this Game a Cyborg Game? Why?

This game shares a common experience that many people have had to an extent where dating websites and subreddits for fleeting connections have been fairly popular and erases the idea of ever winning the game by using the gameplay to tell a story and never allowing the player to gain any ground back or even remotely “win”. The game only uses classic pixel graphics and light gameplay in order to tell a story which inevitably gives the player an uneasy feeling and never the satisfaction of winning or catching up with the fleeting meeting between the two people.