Hva om Kennedy aldri hadde blitt skutt?

Vi snakket med de finske utviklerne i Mindfield Games om deres interessante, alternative historie i det kommende romeventyret Pollen, et spill som nå har startet prosessen med å få grønt lys op Steam.

Historien tar utgangspunkt i at president John F. Kennedy overlevde attentatet i Dallas, og deretter slår USA og Sovjet seg sammen for å bygge en base på månen. Menneskets utforsking av verdensrommet får også en litt annen utvikling enn den vi har sett i vår virkelighet. Prosjektleder og en av grunnleggerne, Olli Sinerma sier følgende:

"We began with this idea that all these great classic science fiction writers like Isaac Asimov and all those. So we took pretty much their world and decided that that is what happened. What they thought in the 50s and 60s what the year 2000 would look like. So we went with that idea. The world changed so it became as the design was in the 1960s in Dallas when in our world [the world of Pollen] Kennedy was not shot, but actually his bodyguard took a bullet."

"In our world [the US and the Soviet Union] joined along and 30 years later human beings have moved to space and we have outposts on March, on the Moon and one of them is on Titan. On the Saturnian moon. It's pretty much common place in Pollen that you have a job in outer space. It's something comparable to have a job at the Arctic circle. It's not totally unheard of, it's pretty common and of course it's really isolated."

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Mindfield Games skjønte tidlig at det var viktig å jobbe detaljorientert for å kunne servere en god virtual reality-opplevelse, og de har ikke spart på noe som helst. Sinerma forklarer:

"We have two story writers working along with us and they pretty much imagined sort of like a dollhouse, the whole station, and they played out two years of developments in the station. What kind of people they would hire there? What would be their areas of expertise? What would they be doing? What kind of personalities would these people have? And what would background would they have? So it's a really extensive world that was built behind it."

"And then as I was saying about the dollhouse. What would these people do on the station? And pretty much all the time they did something they were thinking 'okay, would it leave some kind of mark? Would there be left something, of course, post-it notes are really a common place thing, but would they bring something from Earth with them? Where would they have these objects? That is pretty much how the world was populated."

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Pollen skal slippes sammen med de første VR-enhetene neste år, og senere i 2016 kommer det til Playstation 4. Det er imidlertid verdt å merke seg at spillet kan nytes uten en VR-enhet.