1,000 Heads Among the Trees

Visit a quiet town in the Peruvian desert at night searching for spirits and taking photos, then sharing these pictures with locals who free-associate based on them. This game is based on time I spent with a brujo in the desert suburb of Cachiche, a town that was founded by witches during the Peruvian Inquisition. Here descendants of witches still live and continue to practice traditional healing and fortune-telling.

FEATURES

• Explore a 3D world with ambient sounds, voices and textures from the Peruvian desert, a living environment at night.
• Use your photography as a means of conversing with non-player characters, revealing what they see as well as what they imagine.
• See yourself as an outsider, lurking in alleys, eavesdropping on conversations, going where you're not supposed to go.
• Watch the forces of tourism at work and the conflicts rumbling beneath the surface of a small town.
• Discover that your camera is not just a passive recorder, but that its act of observation can change the environment.
• Complete progressively more abstract quests and delusional journal entries.
• Export and share your photos.