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Humanity is the reimagined 3D Lemmings we didn’t know we needed

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There was a 3D Lemmings: https://www.igdb.com/games/lemmings-3d

EDIT: https://www.mobygames.com/game/2926/lemmings-3d/

Also pseudo-3D lemmings, Lemmings Revolution. Basically, 2D Lemmings rendered in 3D around a cylinder.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/1910/lemmings-revolution/

I played it a lot, the soundtracks were great.

I think the studio behind this is headed by Yugo Nakamura, who was famous in the early web development days as a trailblazing Macromedia/Adobe Flash programmer with his http://yugop.com/ experiments.

His UI work has always been of an extremely high quality. Apple like, before Apple even found it's modern identity. I think this game has been in development for a good few years (at least 4, perhaps). Glad to see it might turn out well.

More detail here: https://www.polygon.com/23696346/humanity-game-preview-enhan...

Apparently, the game is also produced by Sega R&D legend Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Might have to checkout the demo.

I’ve been endlessly saddened by the state of VR gaming.

Halflife Alyx has been the absolute pinnacle, came and went.

This looks like it could be fun.

Reminds me of Darwinia.

This has a very preachy christian end-times/rapture cult smell to me, I thought I was imagining it at first, but then the video introduced 'the others'

I grew up in a literal christian cult, but didn’t interpret it that way at all.

The themes hinted at in the trailer seem like the core existential ideas/problems that humans have been engaging with across cultures and religions since time immemorial.

The idea of a gray faceless “other” is present in christianity, but is a constant across religions and cultures. It’s also at the center of politics.

I suspect that what each person sees in this game will largely depend on the cultural context from which they experience it.

I’m curious about whether the way this is presented in game will serve to provoke thoughtful reflection, or will reinforce bad ideas about the inevitability of “otherness”.

I assumed “the others” was a funny take on “us vs them”, for the sole purpose being something to fight in a game.

Because Dog is God? Because otherwise that's a stretch that exceeds the elastic modulus of the material.

This read very differently with the italic markup in TFA.

I too(?) briefly interpreted the unformatted HN title as some kind of profound commentary on climate change (perhaps) or more generally our predisposition to destroying ourselves.

"Huh, that's an original and oddly specific metaphor, I guess"

Surely that's what it is though. As well as being literal.

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