FREEQ

Entrant 2013


CREATOR
Psychic Bunny

Description

FREEQ is an audio adventure game about eavesdropping and meddling with the future. Your device has acquired the ability to tune into transmissions from the future - but something in the future has gone terribly wrong. Love triangles, illicit affairs, global cataclysm, and a pizza guy who isn't what he seems - these are among the things you'll find when you surf the pulses. And the outcome of these things? Entirely in your hands.

Inspired by classic radio dramas and borne out of a frustration with the branching narrative formula, FREEQ is about having a passive and indirect influence on game events. In the game, you'll intercept calls and radio transmissions and be able to influence who those calls are connected to. Those actions all have consequences and play out as you jump through time, but you can't talk to the future. You can only listen to it and affect who talks to each other. Can you save the world and help true love win out WITHOUT directly choosing what will happen? That's the point of FREEQ.


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