Somewhere’s fragments continue to mystify and delight

Oleomingus’s work is some of my favourite stuff to gawp at. For several years, they’ve been working on Somewhere, a surreal first-person metafictional doodad about the search for a missing city, inspired partially by the winding tales and worlds of Borges and Calvino. As Oleomingus have released prototypes and short spin-offs, Somewhere has gone from stealth to story to… I increasingly suspect that it’s a big trick, that Somewhere is not a game but all of these pieces together, combined with all their dev blogs, their screenshots, and their short stories.

So a new video of nosetowers is as much as the game as recent screenshots of giant lightbulbs as the last playable bit they released. All are Somewhere and all are great. … [visit site to read more]

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