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The new Kickstarter game The Sun Also Rises may share a name with Earnest Hemingway's 1926 classic, but it's up to something completely different. The audacious title seeks to explore the "war on terror" from multiple perspectives in a narrative-based multiplayer game where player actions influence the experience that other players will have. Think of it like an asymmetrical multiplayer variant of The Walking Dead, only that covers real contemporary issues.The game will be played from vantage point of three different characters: A US military medic, an Afghan boy, and a CIA agent. The Medic must treat both American soldiers and Afghan citizens alike in this messy conflict on foreign soil; the Boy has grown up in a village near a US operating base and has struggled to form a worldview in a nation torn asunder; while the Agent is based entirely out of the US and must make difficult decisions affecting the lives of countless people she's never met.
The Sun Also Rises will be played from a third-person perspective, but many of its mechanics will come down to a "natural conversation" dialogue engine that allows players to interrupt each other or not speak at all as they explore the subtle nuances of communicating across language barriers and world views.
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