+ + + The Game: http://metapet.net
Are you ready to manage the worker of the future? Biotech innovation meets corporate creativity and gives birth to a new class of virtual pet: the Metapet. - Your challenge: discover the right balance between a firm hand and a gentle coax without ever losing sight of the bottom line. But here's a word of advice: treat your Metapet with care. Heedless actions may come back to haunt you when you least expect it! Metapet, the world's first transgenic virtual pet game is a strategy game set in a biotechnology company sometime in the near future. The premise of the game is very simple: players choose the company they want to be executives of and have to choose a Metapet. These Matapets are a generation of humans that have been genetically modified along the lines of the Nexus 6 in Blade Runner. In this case, the genetic determinant consists of an obedience gene from a trained dog, which has been designed to create a new class of worker that is much more loyal and productive then its precursor. In Metapet, Action Tank playfully takes on three cultural behemoths: the biotechnology industry, the electronic gaming industry and corporate culture at large. Creative Time's launch of Metapet marks a new phase in the evolution of artist-made games and stakes out new territory for independent, creative practitioners. http://www.action-tank.org http://www.creativetime.org http://www.hamaca.org http://www.metapet.net ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
