Meaning your mind must parse between the dots and the way they move in relation to your movements for it to fully understand the actual placement of those dots. To make it even more mentally strenuous, you can see dots you placed through walls. Moreover, the way the dots work plays with your brain.įor instance, you can see dots on only one side once you pass them you can no longer see them. This means you can create a path through a tunnel only to turn around and see nothing but the black, open void. This makes the game mentally trippy and strenuous because your brain must comprehend and create its own mental structure of the cave while you literally map it out in the game. The dots vary along a spectrum depending on how close you are red is very close, while violet is far away. Instead, you must use a LIDAR gun to place rainbow colored dots around the environment. In the game, you do not actually have any way to see things because you are in a pitch black cave system. Scanner Sombre is actually a relatively new release and really succeeds in messing with your head by playing around with such odd visuals. The game accomplishes this primarily by having you play as various things on all sorts of scales, from the microscopic to the cosmos.Įverything is available on Steam for PC & Mac for $14.99. The grass, the bees, the bears, the rocks, the lamps, us humans too. For instance, Watts proposes- as much of eastern religion does- that we are actually all just part of one larger whole. Watts put forward a worldview, drawing on Hinduism, Chinese philosophy, pantheism or panentheism, and modern science, in which he maintains that the whole universe consists of a cosmic Self playing hide-and-seek ( Lila) hiding from itself ( Maya) by becoming all the living and non-living things in the universe and forgetting what it really is – the upshot being that we are all IT in disguise.Īs such, Everything tries to grapple with many of the predominant themes that are present in Watts' writings.
It also features narration from his old recordings, some of which can be heard below in the launch trailer:Īccording to Wikipedia, Alan Watts' philosophy was largely based on various Eastern philosophies, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and various Chinese philosophies. But who am I to confirm that human thoughts actually have meaning? No one that is who.Īnyhow, Everything is based on the philosophy taught by Alan Watts. When a game is literally named Everything, you know you are either in for something really mind blowing or something completely devoid of meaning.
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