Ensueño

This game is a window into the past, present and future of the Rio Grande. Created using images from Google Maps' Street View of the U.S.-Mexico border, these panoramic photos act as the central scenery of the game. I then generated a water-like reflective landscape from topological terrain data of the Rio Grande, then a water-like shader that represents the river itself. The sound and digital landscape acts as a prism into the region’s dissonant history. Defined by Indigenous land dispossession, migration, border militarization and state violence, this river has also been home to people and non-human beings for millennia. The game’s interface simultaneously makes apparent both the current condition of the river and the ecologies and non-visible agents that have shaped the land.

2022

Move the mouse in the screen to look around.

Use the WASD or arrow keys to move.

Follow the sound’s source to open portals and transverse levels.

The sound will get louder as you move closer to the source.