A MAZE. / Berlin 2023

12th International Games and Playful Media Festival

The Barnacle Goose Experiment

The Barnacle Goose Experiment

by Everest Pipkin (United States of America)

Genre: Incremental game

The Barnacle Goose Experiment is an abiogenesis idle clicker game set in a world where spontaneous generation is commonplace.

You play as a researcher studying the creation of new and living things out of raw and non-living matter. In order to undertake this work without experimental contamination, you are locked inside of a hermetically sealed dome— entirely empty. As such, the only raw material for experimentation is that of your own body.

Through the accretions of self, the slow learning of mechanical systems, and the simple duration of time, you must uncover the combinatory logic of spontaneous generation and make again a living world from a dead one.

With music from Ben Babbitt, halina heron, Geotic, Adobo, Jún, Smokey Emery, Sadurn, Zac Traeger, SamanthaZero, and Eli Rainsbury.

Platform: Web