Greetings from sunny South America…
Tourist Trap is a 2D hand drawn level & click on journey recreation with a robust give attention to narrative and light-weight puzzle fixing. It´s a surrealist comedy with a darkish secret on the core of the story. In a fictional South American vacationer city known as Santa Ballena, we play as a younger tour information, Lucas, who uncovers a conspiracy involving native abductions and an menacing company controlling the city.
Developed by TragicoMedia, a two-man studio composed of myself and Manuel González Larrauri, the sport tells a really private story and has many layers however primarily revolves across the two sides of its plot.
On one hand, the principle textual content of the story a few vacationer colony dominated by a international company and the lives of the numerous exploited locals that attempt to survive inside it, may be very a lot impressed by Manuel’s expertise rising up in a working-class household in Punta del Este, Uruguay. As a coastal vacationer city it suffers from a lot of the recreation’s fictional ills, corresponding to no actual economic system past service to rich foreigners, no curiosity from the federal government to take care of its inhabitants or infrastructure past the summer season months and an ever rising sense of despair and want to escape.
On the opposite hand, the sport additionally addresses the problem of touristification, which isn’t not like the state of affairs of cultural industries within the international south. Drawing parallels between working as an artist, developer or inventive of any form and residing within the Global South. Meaning that one should select to both entertain the vacationers (i.e., Global North audiences) by serving to their tastes, tradition and language (i.e., creating recreation in English primarily based round a gaming tradition developed by and for the Global North), or cannibalizing their very own tradition for revenue (i.e., making video games in English however that includes extremely marketable components of 1’s tradition).
It’s naive to imagine that the video games trade must be secure from colonization or the Global North cultural affect, however as artists we’re tackling the problem with the instruments we now have.
Tourist Trap has one thing of worth so as to add to that goal.
We hope you take pleasure in Tourist Trap on Xbox!
Tourist Trap
TragicoMedia
$9.99
$8.99
Welcome to Santa Ballena…
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Tourist Trap is a surrealist darkish comedy level & click on journey set in Santa Ballena, a South American city affected by tourism gentrification.
Introducing Lucas, a younger vacationer information, who finds himself in the midst of a conspiracy involving native abductions, political rebels and Pharos, the shady international company controlling the city.
