Grand Prize Winner of Just Play: A Game Jam for Climate Futures!
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“Maybe we saved the world” is a procedurally-generated narrative game of climate crisis and community action.
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You play as a young activist, navigating a world which is different for every playthrough. Your journey is narrated in past tense by your future self — reflecting on this critical time from a future where the climate crisis has been solved, but much work remains to be done.
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Original music & sound by Winnie Liu. Design, writing, & programming by Aric McBay. Voice acting and proofreading by Leslie McBay.
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You can download or check more details on itch.io:
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Interview from our developer Aric from Canada:
Interview about the music and sound of Maybe We Saved the World in Vents Magazine:
🎼Music Composer / Producer / 〰️Sound Designer / 🎻Cellist
Winnie (劉蕙雯 Hui-Wen Liu) is a Taiwanese media composer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist actively engaged in film, game, live theater, and pop music industry. Specializing in string and woodwind instruments and electronic synths, she supports visual media and stories with hybrid acoustic textures. She enjoys delving into psychology, cultures, and contemporary social topics by working on various creative formats such as film, theater, games, exhibitions, and experimental art.
One of her notable projects, the experimental interactive music and dance "Drifting Roots", where she served as a project co-producer and composer, was performed in Taiwan C-LAB Sound Festival "Diversonics" in 2023. Hosted in a 49.4-channel speakers sound lab with support from the French institute IRCAM, it also garnered recognition at the Taipei Fringe Festival, earning the Fringe Space Award. She was also honored to be one of the composers involved in the Chinese-language Silent Films Composition Project “Love and Duty” in 2021, organized by C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab (TSL) and Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute. She has served for film and media industry for about 3 years. Her recent score for the experimental film “Pacify”, won The Best Style Film in Style Experimental Fashion Film Festival, and was recognized in Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, and Experimental Forum.
Winnie holds a BFA in Cello Performance from National Sun Yat-sen University and an MFA in Music Composition for the Screen from Columbia College Chicago, and she was honored to be a mentee in the 2024 ScreenCraft Works Mentorship program. And contribute as a member of SCL, AWFC, CDC, and ASMAC, currently based in Los Angeles.