Breakin’ and entering
Video game developer Johnnemann Nordhagen, who has worked on Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, decided to commemorate the industry’s love of breaking into things through a digital museum that anyone can download and play. It’s called the Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking, and it recreates lock-picking minigames from all sorts of famous franchises, from Fallout to Deus Ex. Each minigame is housed within an old-timey lock.
The idea, as reported by Rock Paper Shotgun, initially came from a tweet postulating that it would be cool to make a museum of fishing mechanics. Nordhagen saw the tweet and decided to craft his own museum of mechanics. Since he was in the middle of designing a new project, he was surveying how other video games have solved problems he is facing right now.
“It’s a lot of trouble to dig up old games and play them until you find the pieces you want,” Nordhagen said. While he could load up YouTube videos to see previous attempts by other games, it’s not the same as experiencing the minigames firsthand. So he built the mechanics from scratch and put them in a museum he could interact with, ultimately uploading it to the internet so other game developers can use it as a resource.
