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Umurangi Generation
Umurangi Generation is a first-person photography simulation video game developed by Origame Digital and released for Microsoft Windows in May 2020. Ports for Nintendo Switch and Xbox One followed in June 2021 and May 2022, respectively. Versions for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 released in April 2024, alongside a virtual reality version for the PlayStation VR2 and Meta Quest platforms.
Umurangi Generation is a first-person photography game. The player is tasked with taking photos meeting specific conditions (such as photographing a particular piece of graffiti with a specific camera lens) but is otherwise free to exercise their creativity. The game allows the player multiple methods, techniques and opportunities for achieving their photography bounties, as well as complete freedom over any editing or effects put on photos. The player unlocks camera and lens attachments to achieve different effects, such as telephoto and fisheye lenses.[citation needed]
A DLC titled Umurangi Generation Macro was released on 7 November 2020. It adds four new levels and new camera systems, such as shutter speed, apertures and ISO adjustments, as well as a selfie camera and an attachment stylized after the Game Boy Camera that produces low resolution photos. Roller skates were also added, enabling the player to traverse around the world more quickly, as well as a spray can for the player to paint objects in the world.
Umurangi Generation takes place in Tauranga, New Zealand, in the near future during a time of crisis. The player takes the role of a Māori courier for the Tauranga Express. The United Nations has deployed soldiers and towering mecha to defend the island nation against alien invaders which resemble bluebottle jellyfish. The player travels around settings such as a rooftop party, a military checkpoint, a battle and an evacuation train to take pictures along with their friends, Micah, Atarau, Kete, and a chinstrap penguin named Pengi.
In-game advertisements and images provide further context, such as local resistance against the UN occupation, the prime minister being away on holiday during the crisis, and a dangerous contagious parasite epidemic. The player is punished for taking pictures of jellyfish but is otherwise free to roam and photograph.
The game ends with a cataclysmic scene of a shadowy creature perched over a mountain as the player walks towards a beach where several spirits of Māori people, mud crabs and Huia overlook the catastrophe. The game ends dedicating itself to the "Umurangi Generation: The last generation who has to watch the world die."
Umurangi Generation was developed by a Māori developer, Naphtali Faulkner. Faulkner developed the game in Unity in 10 months, starting full-time work on the project at the start of 2020. Before development, Faulkner worked on community apps with local Aboriginal groups, and would dabble in smaller projects in his free time. Faulkner says that Umurangi Generation is the first "real" game he's made.
Faulkner was inspired to make the game's photography system after teaching their younger cousin how to use a DSLR camera, and noting that explaining it to him felt like a video game tutorial. The gameplay was also inspired by the item management of the Arma series noting that the loadouts for characters in Arma felt like accessories that the player gets to play with minute to minute.
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Umurangi Generation
Umurangi Generation is a first-person photography simulation video game developed by Origame Digital and released for Microsoft Windows in May 2020. Ports for Nintendo Switch and Xbox One followed in June 2021 and May 2022, respectively. Versions for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 released in April 2024, alongside a virtual reality version for the PlayStation VR2 and Meta Quest platforms.
Umurangi Generation is a first-person photography game. The player is tasked with taking photos meeting specific conditions (such as photographing a particular piece of graffiti with a specific camera lens) but is otherwise free to exercise their creativity. The game allows the player multiple methods, techniques and opportunities for achieving their photography bounties, as well as complete freedom over any editing or effects put on photos. The player unlocks camera and lens attachments to achieve different effects, such as telephoto and fisheye lenses.[citation needed]
A DLC titled Umurangi Generation Macro was released on 7 November 2020. It adds four new levels and new camera systems, such as shutter speed, apertures and ISO adjustments, as well as a selfie camera and an attachment stylized after the Game Boy Camera that produces low resolution photos. Roller skates were also added, enabling the player to traverse around the world more quickly, as well as a spray can for the player to paint objects in the world.
Umurangi Generation takes place in Tauranga, New Zealand, in the near future during a time of crisis. The player takes the role of a Māori courier for the Tauranga Express. The United Nations has deployed soldiers and towering mecha to defend the island nation against alien invaders which resemble bluebottle jellyfish. The player travels around settings such as a rooftop party, a military checkpoint, a battle and an evacuation train to take pictures along with their friends, Micah, Atarau, Kete, and a chinstrap penguin named Pengi.
In-game advertisements and images provide further context, such as local resistance against the UN occupation, the prime minister being away on holiday during the crisis, and a dangerous contagious parasite epidemic. The player is punished for taking pictures of jellyfish but is otherwise free to roam and photograph.
The game ends with a cataclysmic scene of a shadowy creature perched over a mountain as the player walks towards a beach where several spirits of Māori people, mud crabs and Huia overlook the catastrophe. The game ends dedicating itself to the "Umurangi Generation: The last generation who has to watch the world die."
Umurangi Generation was developed by a Māori developer, Naphtali Faulkner. Faulkner developed the game in Unity in 10 months, starting full-time work on the project at the start of 2020. Before development, Faulkner worked on community apps with local Aboriginal groups, and would dabble in smaller projects in his free time. Faulkner says that Umurangi Generation is the first "real" game he's made.
Faulkner was inspired to make the game's photography system after teaching their younger cousin how to use a DSLR camera, and noting that explaining it to him felt like a video game tutorial. The gameplay was also inspired by the item management of the Arma series noting that the loadouts for characters in Arma felt like accessories that the player gets to play with minute to minute.