Kai UnEarthed
In an unpoliced future where everyone’s needs are met, teenagers receive energy tattoos, preparing to tend the wildness of a regrowing planet. But first, they must complete a coming-of-age ceremony that transports them back to their ancestors’ experiences in the Capitalist Era and its catastrophic final decades.
Play as Kai, a child of traumatized revolutionaries. Fall in love with your crush as you explore the ruins of a juvenile detention center. Decide how you will hold the pain of your elders and ancestors as you heal together. Learn how to touch the unknown webs of the artifacts you unEarth.
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We are currently working on turning this interactive narrative into a multimedia video game. More details can be found at kaiunearthed.com. We welcome feedback, which might inform our design of future iterations of the game. You can reach us at KaiUnearthed@gmail.com
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Install instructions
Please download the printable journal before starting the game. The game will prompt you to draw and write in it as you go. Once you download the PDF you can open it in a web browser like Edge or Chrome and can print it from there.
If you prefer to engage with the journal on your computer without printing, you can do one of the following:
On Mac: in the Finder window, right click the icon of the journal PDF document, and then click on "Markup".
On PC: open the PDF in the Microsoft Edge web browser and click on the Draw icon (looks like pencil) in the upper right hand corner.
On Both: download the free Acrobat Reader software, then use it to open the PDF of the journal. Click on "Tools" then "Comment", and find the drawing and writing tools at the top of the screen.
Please email us at KaiUnEarthed@gmail.com if you have any questions. If you want to play the game without an internet connection, we can send you an html document that you can run in a web browser offline.
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