individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto
A downloadable shovelware for Windows and Linux
A high definition anti-capitalism next-gen-ism, with good lighting, and optimized textures.
This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way.
Follow coins under the electric mist of a clouded starry sky. Discover hyper-links. Listen to the words both inside and outside your head. Seal your fate before the productivity machine. Together we can defeat the machine.
Features include: Pedantic views on tech feudalism with nice shader work, and good reflection captures. Overly critical views on capitalism with lumen and nanite enabled.
Claim this game before it's gone forever.
These assets are next-gen. You will need a DirectX 11 capable gaming machine. 
Some flipped assets, not all, allegedly from the following free-for-the-month bundles...
* Advanced Glass Pack (No assets were used)
* Bank Building (Many assets were used)
* Big Office (Many assets were used)
* Brutalist Architecture Office (Not enough assets were used)
* Clouds and Skies (No Assets were used)
* Advanced CRT TV - VCR - VHS Effects (Lazy use of these assets)
* 4 IN 1 Modular Research Facility / Mega Bundle (Trashcan assets were used)
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How are you even getting the website to do this?? this is awesome.
You perfectly captured the mystique and majesty of the first days of the internet and how creative it all was. I'm hoping this will inspire more people to get out there and create their own spaces in the midst of all the corporate greed and desolation.
ello can i please have incorrect dinosaurs source code? i like the dos window and message box
spiiny comments
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Damn the comments are spinning. Epuc game btw :D
I had the potato floating on my screen for almost the whole game. Really opened my eyes as someone who has no idea what I'm missing out on. As someone who never knew to see tech from this perspective. As someone who has had software sold to me as the rich big wigs selling the right to create to us mere mortals. Creativity is something that belongs to us all to express ourselves. Just because the means of creation seem to be Commoditized does not mean we don't still have the resources to share and express our ideas and interests the same way others once did. Thank you for this piece of art. Okay it's really hard to write this while its spinning so I'll end it here.
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i guess leaving a comment is somewhat futile given the dizzying circumstances but this was good thanks for making it
i cannot read anything in the comments but i believe them
aye
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This rotating comment box is neat and all, but I really wish I could read the comments to see if anyone else is have the technical problem I'm having so I can try to fix it and actually be able to play the game.
What problem r u having?
I couldn't get the linux native version game to run, and the windows version ran at 2 fps in the WINE bottle I normally use for itch games. I did eventually get it to run at normal fps under proton experimental.
Glad you got it figured out :)
I am proud of myself for writing a comment. Also slightly dizzy.
speen!
really could of used an epilepsy warning before entering this page
what the hellllllllllllll
why is the comments spinnin
Drugs
this game was so touching. I’ve never seen anything like this before, and the way you worded your thoughts and research was so immediately convincin. I never thought about how quickly the internet was taken from us. “We need future generations to know that this for them too” ugh what a powerful line.
I loved this interactive manifesto. Many great questions asked in a single place, along many useful resources a link to understand the early ages of personal software and Internet. Visual effects and audios made me feel nostalgia. Thanks for this. : )
This piece really made me think about a lot of things.
From a visual standpoint, after leaving the first room, the darkness of the night, illuminated by electronic devices, was very beautiful. As I walked around, the old PC monitors and Windows UI were nice and nostalgic.
And the game content I was very impressed.
I have played several of alienmelon's works and have respected them for their strangeness and depth, but I was impressed to see these works, especially the episode where Electric Zin Maker is a beacon like a lighthouse for people with similar sensibilities from the vast world of the Internet. I'm impressed.
I feel that many individual developers around me are now talking about how to advertise and get impressions, registration and fees on google and apple, fees for cloud app services, and social networking systems where such topics are easily visible.
I thought this work would be a good opportunity to remind people now that such things have become a part of their daily lives, what development is, etc., meow~!
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How to stop the comment column from spinning?><
Very insightful and fun to walk through!
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I love capitalism
This Comment Section Will Make Me Thorw Up!
This is Extremely uncomfortable.
Linux version doesn't work for me :(
I have an AMD card in case that's useful info.
yooo+
i alone have brain rot
real
Thought this shi was malwarefor amin
Sup tards!
im black, capitalism doesnt apply to me
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