Re:Sea

The bay used to be full of fish. Now it is full of what the land throws away.

You operate a claw machine from inside a work submarine on the seabed. Every

day the current brings a new delivery. Your job is to lift each piece, work

out what it actually is, and sort it — before your shift runs out.

WHAT YOU DO

Lower the claw and grab what you can. Bring it to the sorting desk. Read what

is on the surface for free, and pay to look deeper: rinse it, magnify the

label, swab the stain. Then choose a bin  and commit

Only at the end of the day do you find out. Every mistake comes back with the

one thing you never checked.

WHAT MAKES IT AWKWARD

Information costs the same resource as everything else. Every drop of the

claw is inspection budget you no longer have. Work fast and you sort blind

work carefully and you never hit your quota.

Sorting rules stack, and they change from day to day. What belonged in one

bin yesterday may not belong there today. You cannot memorise your way

through this — you have to read.

Sort correctly and the material reaches the workshop, where it becomes parts

for three machines that clean the bay. Sort wrongly and it is not worth less.

It is worth nothing.

Five days. Three machines. Four endings.

CONTROLS

• A / D or arrow keys — move the claw
• Space, S or Down — drop
• Tab — switch between the claw and the sorting desk
• Mouse — use tools, choose bins, zoom and drag
• R — open the rulebook

Made for HoloGame, HOLOGY 9.0 — Universitas Brawijaya.

Theme: Bloom Beyond. Sub-theme: Environment.

Art: Yumiko Jeanette Japari, Nathanova Yvonne Friday

Programming: Jason Tio