All the Delicate Duplicates Download PC

All the Delicate Duplicates (or AtDD) is a single player first-person psychological/exploration game co-developed by Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell. Produced by The Space, One to One Development Trust - Dreaming Methods, and Mez Breeze Design, the game was published through Steam in February 2017. It contains a non-linear story that's discovered through interactive elements and a text-based backstory.

Themes

Originally slated as a transmedia project called "Pluto", All the Delicate Duplicates now has at its core a 3D gameworld. This gameworld blurs fantasy and the real world in a set of environments that question concepts of time, multiple realities, family dynamics, and quantum states, playing on the fact that perception is a crucial aspect of how we construct (what we know as) reality.

Inspired by the possibilities of fiction, digital poetry and experimental digital art, All the Delicate Duplicates tells a complex psychological story through game engine technology. Developed from the ground up by digital artists/writers rather than traditional game developers, the work challenges traditional storytelling within games by spanning multiple time periods, incorporating animated and transitional texts as physical manifestations within the gameworld and leaving the story open to multiple revisits and interpretations.

The poetic, hybrid language Mezangelle forms a central part of the non-linear language in the game. It remixes the basic structure of English and computer code to create language where meanings are nested inside each other. Players need to read and re-read in order to piece together the narrative.

Plot

When single parent/computer engineer John inherits a collection of arcane objects, journals and sketches from an enigmatic relative named Mo, he confines them to his loft. Seeking inspiration for her school art class, John's daughter Charlotte accidentally uncovers these objects and journals, latching on to Mo's wild, surreal creativity and bizarre scientific theories with childlike obsession and wonder. Charlotte bombards John (who confesses he cannot remember Mo and knows nothing about her mysterious objects) with questions: Who was Mo? How did she die? Did she go insane? Why did she draw such weird pictures?

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