Like every spring the Famicase Exhibition is open in Tokyo until the end of this month. This is my design for this year, “FAR ABOVE THE MOON”, a game based in David Bowie’s great hit “Space Oddity”. This is the text that explains the game:
_DAY 1: Protein pills taken. Helmet on. The first cat travelling into space is ready for the countdown.
_DAY 2: Floating out of the capsule the stars look very different. The Earth feels blue.
_DAY 3: Alarm in the ground control station: the circuit's dead, there's something wrong. The connection with the cat is lost.
What's happening in the spaceship? Take your Famicom(TM) pad, connect to your head the included neuroelectrodes and prepare yourself for the oddest voyage through space and through a cat's brain.
1 player mode. Edgy 8-bit graphics & sound. Infinite gameplay.
This is my 6th year in Famicase, and I’ve really enjoyed the process of turning a song like this into a video game. Hope you like it! :)
[ About Famicase: Famicase is an exhibition organized by Satoshi Sakagami, owner of Meteor shop, and every year shows fictional Famicom cartridge designs ]
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