Kenopsian Highlands of the Cloudbusting Mythos

https://www.coregames.com/games/89e3d1/kenopsian-highlands

My entry for the Secret Spaces Game Jam in the abandoned cities category!

The "Kenopsian Highlands of the Cloudbusting Mythos" is my try at creating an aesthetically appealing, immersive, and interesting space that draws inspiration from a narrative passion project of mine and the composition and color of Tohad's artworks. 

I'm not that familiar with programming nor the CORE engine, so while I deeply enjoyed the level and environment design work; adding game systems proved difficult. Yet I would love to develop the idea further.

In terms of narrative (Be wary, lots of paragraphs to come):

Everything that has existed, that exists or that will exist either as a concept, a law, a physical body or a feeling convolutes in the egg, an infinitely gigantic sphere that breaks the laws of the known universe as it wishes; yet something is constant: As you go from the nucleus to the surface the whole terrain becomes drier and drier until it eventually vanishes and becomes never retrievable cosmic dust, but as you go from the surface to the nucleus, it all muds up and mixes in such a way that time and space converge and become a one and only homogeneous substance with no identity. 

The egg is atemporal and unexplainable. It surely has always existed and probably will always exist until it wants to exist no more. It feeds up of contradictory logic and has such a blurred history that not even their inhabitants are self-conscious of their condition. With this in its nature, it would be an important question to make how could anyone or anything end up in this place; yet no one knows, and probably no one can care about it as inner thoughts are brief in most of the levels of the egg.

Complex systems can arise and endure from this endless recycling machine of sinking grounds. The middle and more stable rings of the egg are greatly disputed between all sapient instances. At this height, uncountable kingdoms have fallen and risen from the residues of the previous ones, immeasurable biological phyla have clashed with whole genetic pools that have adapted to the harshest of the conditions and so much energy and information has traversed through every particle so it surely has contaminated every other thing with data from every other thing. 

    The people who arrive to this world have all been among us in the real world. One could think of the egg as a second chance for the dead. People from Ancient Egypt can now share with 21st-century contemporaries and so can Plato have a conversation with Freud and Hitler if they manage to find one another in the immensity of this place.

The Kenopsian Highlands of the Cloudbusting Mythos is thought of as an ancient legend by the people in the egg. Is said to be one of these places that only reveals itself to the true forlorn whose second chance has not given the expected results. Stories of medieval nordic buildings, modern german artists, obscure cults of serene love in worship to what is called as "The Last Virgin" and the lust and ambition of a man, so great that it is told he has found the way to keep the moisture in the air, condensing rains and storms with his mischievous "cloudbusting towers" spared all along the city.  

Oh, but the sayings are true; as it appears a truly forlorn soul has arrived at this place and only you may know why. What brought you here? Was it a sense of loneliness and misfortune? Or maybe a worrisome accident that has put you in a conflicting position with your loved ones? 

It does not matter right now. 

You have arrived. And the once sprawling city of calm silence appears to have been left devoid of people. Sure, some places may look abandoned, but the mysterious facts lie on the fresh and warm food that appears to desire being eaten in every household. Or the flickering candle lights that have been burnt only some minutes ago. 

Whatever it is. Be careful.