2020/05/07

Speculative Browser Game Lets Players ‘Choose Their Own Quarantine’

Inspired by the Choose Your Own Adventure book series first popularized in the 1980s, Russian artist Dasha Ilina and screenwriter Sofia Haines launch Choose Your Own Quarantine, a browser game about navigating the uncertainties of the pandemic. “The user is presented with a scenario that initially follows the real timeline of COVID-19 development,” write the authors, “but as the game goes on, users will notice that the options become increasingly speculative and fictitious.” Which values, practices, and cultures will ultimately be enduring, and which may become outdated remnants of the pre-pandemic world?

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