We learn something of the essence of a species, by observing them. Rarely has the question in mind, whether it might not be just the opposite comes to us: that we are being watched. In the video game “Do not feed the Monkeys”, which was released for Nintendo’s “Switch”, the player gets via a hidden camera access to so-called “cages” with “primates”. The “cages” referred to places of interest are numbered at the beginning only. Introduced by a lady, posing as the “masked Maid”, is to enter the secret “Primate-watching club”, has added to its Software (“monkey vision 2.1.”) installed and by you, sometimes very private insights into the life or death of Observed. Only you can – this is one of the challenges of the game needs like sleep or Hunger of sheer voyeurism is not negligible, neither is the rent, which calls for all three days of a disgruntled landlord in. It could so casually claim that the game reflects on a fundamental level, the life with Social media in the year 2020.
Axel Weidemann
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Before the start of the Monitoring, the observers, however, a couple of terms and conditions of use on the way. So he has to buy all the five days, a certain number of cages, i.e., camera locations, to a “Club-level” ascend. Needless to say, he may talk “with anyone about the Club”; is not allowed to uninstall the application. A top priority in the title is: “Feeding the monkeys is prohibited.”
men with masks, creepy dolls, singing transvestites
In the game you learn when you become accustomed to the rhythm and the resource management of the daily routines, quickly, that it is precisely the Breaking of that commandment: The way to contact with the Monitored in-contact, are many and varied – as are the consequences. First, however, it is to recognize essential characteristics of the filmed spaces or environment by careful Monitoring and be recorded by the push of a button as a keyword in the note book. The same applies to spoken words – a microphone is also installed on-site.
Then Timing and the patience of a wildlife filmmaker are in demand. You would do well to remember the times in which the observation object is active. Otherwise, it may be that for hours (the passing in the game, of course, much faster) dead pants. The time, but there are (careful, Spoiler!) a lot to see: rare, Wild, murderous Truck driver, crop circles, robber with horse masks, creepy dolls, singing transvestites, Voyeurs with a telephoto lens, Egyptian treasures, mysterious excavations, as slaves held a Ghostwriter and depressive musician.
with the right combination of the listed keywords in the “personalized” search engine “ProOwl” we come to information such as phone numbers, addresses, and im names of the Observed and any of the other players. Together puzzled, they result in tragic, brutal, bizarre, mysterious, or funny stories. Watch out for the player, the specific sequences can record at the touch of a button even must be told, only, whom he of it. Because depending on the time for the Parties to the Often nasty consequences.
