Ibe is a geo text adventure that takes place in a parallel universe. The game uses the latitude and longitude of the player to map it to a female protagonist in a fragmented and dystopian storyline.

In a parallel universe, there is a world very similar to Earth called Erath. The planet is almost completely destroyed by an unknown virus.

On these streets a young woman called Ibe plunders to survive. She suffers from severe amnesia and it seems everyone else left the planet. But you can contact her with this game and guide her to find the food and items she needs by walking to those places on this Earth. Maybe you will even find people there who can save her.

How to play the game

The game uses your browsers geolocation api and you interact with the system by actually walking at least a hundred meters in real life.

There are 3 main buttons: place, backpack and energy.

When you hit 'place' the game will ask for permission to use your current gps location. You should allow it or otherwise nothing happens. Ibe will then describe the place to you as she experiences it in her parallel universe.

Sometimes she will find an item. The items are collected in your backpack. To view your inventory: simply click the 'backpack' button and click a specific item to inspect it.

Items have 2 action buttons, which are a little different for each item.

Finally there is the 'energy' button. You should click it from time to time to check if Ibe isn't hungry. She can survive about 2 days without food. Time runs parallel to your time in the real world as well, so if you come back to the game after more then two days: sorry, she will be dead.

The goal of the game

The goal of the game is to find other survivors.

About

This game was made in two weeks for #AdvJam2018

The original version of this game polled the google places api to guess what type of buildings are around you in the real world and then map it to some vague description of something similar in the story.

Because those kind of external software services break from time to time. It just really gets annoying to maintain anything that depends on them. Not to mention your privacy is guano to them.

The 25 places of the story are now mapped in a repeated 5x5 grid of 100x100 meter squares across the globe. The longitude and latitude of the player will be rounded to one of those squares.

The game also got a 4th button "move", which allows you to offset the character 100 meter to the north, east, south or west. This way the game becomes playable on desktop. You can also use it outdoors, so you don't have to dive into some lake or do some illegal trespassing.