Incoming Message from a Strange World is a choice-based narrative game developed by our duo team, Aulive and Onion Studio, a collaboration between Kang Hyun Ki as writer and artist, and myself as developer and artist.

   To encourage players to reflect on the societal impact of depleting electrical resources, we designed a core mechanic that breaks the fourth wall. Players make choices through a physical action: plugging and unplugging a laptop charger. This action symbolizes the transfer of electricity from our world to the game's fictional society, which grapples with similar sustainability challenges and the stratified effects of resource scarcity on differently resourced communities. Through this immersive mechanic, players confront ethical dilemmas around resource sharing and conservation, mirroring the complexities faced in our own world.