DARKWEB STREAMER
Creating a fame monster
Developer/ publisher We Have Always Lived In The Forest
Format PC
Origin
Australia
Release TBA
Stalkers, viruses, ghosting: you’re never more than a few clicks away from stumbling into a horror trope online. Yet Darkweb Streamer, a narrative Roguelike situated within a browser’s own digital shadow, began with a desire to create a “beautiful” Internet. Having spent her childhood as “one of the avant-garde designers” of MySpace and GeoCities pages, director Chantal Ryan is familiar with building off-kilter digital spaces.
For this project, the challenge became one of creative reanimation. “I didn’t want to make a game about the Internet of today; it’s a horrible, empty space,” Ryan tells us. “If I want to make an Internet, it’s going to be that place charged with magic, potential, possibility, authenticity and individuality.”