Players are key writers of the Game Story
Afrikaner Apokolip’s tribute to the player
“#AAShrine offers a visual analogy of the interactive narrative writing process wherein players are key writers of the game story.”
*Read more about The Afrikaner Apokolips Shrine below or click through to find out more about the Afrikaner Apokolips Game World
Afrikaner Apokolips is a sci-fi detective game set in !Hui Gaeb City (formerly known as Cape Town), Mzansi (Southern Africa) in the year 2075. After the global fracking catastrophe, all water has become undrinkable. Diamonds are used for water purification, making it triple in value.
In !Hui Gaeb City, the clean air capital of the United States of Africa, the last Afrikaner, Bettie van Der Merwe is caught in the crossfire of Africa’s most notorious diamond smuggling crime syndicate all by herself.
See Bettie, the ultimate femme fatale, is only focused on one thing — tracking down her deceased boyfriend’s killer, the biggest diamond smuggler in Mzansi.
On her dangerous trail to the top, Bettie finds herself entranced with the diamonds, the trance reaches her in her dreams through wherein she meets the Ancient Water Spirit who becomes her guiding light in this dangerous journey of water, diamonds and love.
Right after Clive’s horrific death, Bettie and her content collective set up the ‘AfrikanerApkolips Shrine’ as a way to pay tribute to her lover, also the first martyr of the Afrilennial Revolution, Clive Meintjies. In part, the shrine is also the start of Bettie’s journey to track down Clive’s killer aka the starting point of the game. In this sense, the ‘Afrikaner Apokolips Shrine’ installation is the game menu, the headquarters from which all narrative loops will start and end.
In theory however ‘The Afrikaner Apokolips Shrine’ is an ode to the player and in this sense, #AAShrine offers a visual analogy of the interactive narrative writing process wherein players are key writers of the game story.
‘The Afrikaner Apokolips Shrine’ is made up of ‘cut scenes’ and game props that build up the broader narrative of the game world. The ‘Tweet to Tribute feature’ of the installation symbolizes the real-time building of the narrative as players interact with the game world.
This blog is also the first official blog on Little Kidogo’s game build journey, so welcome and thanks for your support!
It is players like you who make games meaningful!
*Read more about the Afrikaner Apokolips Game World
We are excited to share this journey with you! Please tell us what you think?
Feedback is more than welcome — PS. it is direly necessary😄
*Comment below or DM us on Instagram
Press Quotes
Gallery MOMO Cape Town. Be Kind. Please Rewind; a group exhibition of artists who engage with history and memory through the medium of film and video.
Personal histories and collective memories, nostialgia and storytelling… the construction and perception of history and memory.
Artist Carla Inez Espost, is a storyteller-artist.
Her work, located between art and film, integrates the private and the public to create new myths that help reclaim authority over skewed ideologies.
Bettie & Clive merges the disciplines of installation and video to create a paradoxical shrine to the “Afrikaner Apokolips”.
— Artthrob
