FUTURE CLASSIC: UMURANGI GENERATION
FUTURE CLASSIC
Modern games you’llstill be playinginyearstocome
Moveover Pokémon Snap ,there’sa new photography game intown. It’s time to forget your Pikachusand Jigglypuffs, and embrace snapping urbandecay in this game’s self-described ‘shitty future’
Words by Paul Walker-Emig
INFO
» Year: 2020
» Publisher: Heart Machine
» Developer:Origame Digital
» Key People:Naphtali Faulkner
GO DEEPER
» The devastating Australian bushfires of 2019 and 2020, which directly impacted the developer’s family, were an influence on the game.
» Umurangi Generation is influenced by the philosophy of ‘respectful design’, which places heavy emphasis on the agency of communities
UMURANGI
GENERATION
THE BACKGROUND
[PC] Bleak as Umurangi Generation’s world is, it can also be beautiful.
It’s difficult to overstate just how much of an unlikely hit Umurangi Generation is. It is developer Naphtali Faulkner’s first earnest attempt at making a videogame, his previous experience at coding composed of time working with Aboriginal communities in Australia on language apps and the odd small project. Not only is this his first game, but he completed it in only ten months.