Everything is going to be OK, the interactive zine/digital fever-dream from Tetrageddon creator Nathalie Lawhead all the time felt deeply private to me. Its manic humour and wild creativeness filtered via laptop interfaces of yesteryear all the time felt underpinned by a really particular breed of frustration and disappointment. Today, it grew just a bit bit extra, including three new ‘pages’ set inside hazy, unreal PC desktops packed dense with unusual little minigames, offbeat humour and a few very emotionally heavy prose.
If you’ve by no means skilled Everything goes to be OK earlier than, buckle up and benefit from the trip. Come for the flashing lights, the offbeat jokes, the foolish voices and the mesmerising soundscape, keep for the rising sense of ennui-tinged unease that drives you to introspection, bouncing its many pithy, pointed questions off your self and seeing what sticks.
Lawhead talks about her determination to take these new pages on this particularly heartfelt route in this pulsating purple development blog here. While it’s positively higher if you happen to learn it your self, the abridged model is that these new pages are a response to a current outpouring of unpleasantness and basic wrongheadedness directed at EIGTBOK (that’s a fairly good acronym) and its creator from the traditionalist ‘games are meant to be fun’ crowd. So a lot so, that one of many new pages accommodates a scathingly satirical questionnaire to gauge whether or not you’re an ‘intelligent’ sufficient gamer to be granted entry to your individual Games folder.
The new replace seems within the type of three Missing Pages, which you’ll be able to see within the screenshot above. Each one progressively dives slightly deeper into the fractured interactive dreamscape. In amidst the jokes, the glitch detritus and the gnawing sense of unease hidden behind a faintly twitching smile lies a prolonged private piece of prose on every web page, unfiltered and direct from the creator. It’s sobering stuff, and a becoming, long-form epilogue to what was beforehand a comparatively mild and easy-to-digest collection of vignettes.
Lawhead reckons that with this replace, EIGTBOK feels full now, and it will more than likely be the tip of the highway for this explicit challenge. She’s already drawing up tentative plans for her subsequent large factor, though is contemplating doing a little smaller, extra overtly foolish tasks to assist recharge within the interim. Whatever she chooses to do, I want her all of the luck on this planet. Games want extra artistic endeavors like this; if not unafraid, then at the least brave sufficient to confront these fears head-on, with a thousand-yard stare and an ear-to-ear grin.
You can seize Everything goes to be OK on Itch.io and Gamejolt. It’s free, however take into account donating just a few {dollars} if you happen to get pleasure from it and wish to see extra stuff like this made in future.
