EXPERIMENT 03Listen, Mara
An audio thriller in the browser. You are Mara, blind, and in a Cologne tenement with thin walls you hear an argument, a blow, then footsteps on the stairs. Seven nights to prevent a murder.
Why we built it: We wanted to know whether a game works without pictures: whether footsteps, voices and the click of a key can carry a story the way graphics do. And whether listening creates its own kind of tension when you know more than the protagonist does. Yes to both. The audio engine, the sound routing and the script format for branching audio scenes have since become part of our storytelling.