L'écho du dehors

L'écho du dehors (Echo of the outside world) is a game made during the 2024 Lille's Scientific Game Jam during a weekend inside Clarisse's nun-order desecrated convent, occupied by the architectural association Zerm. The theme was based on Ludmila Postel's thesis "Sound art and video games, research-creation in New Atlantis" and the convent on itself or the issue that Zerm is working on.

The idea was to use the noises coming from outside the convent and ask ourselves how they could affect a nun locked in the convent. We chose to work around a nun interpreting what's happening outside by drawing what she thinks happens in her drawing carnet. Sound is spatialized so players hear differently depending on where they are in the room.

In L'écho du dehors, you are playing the nun and with ZQSD, you're moving her around the room. You are supposed to hear the sounds from outside and use the drawing table to reproduce what you think you've heard, choosing from a list of already drawn assets. Some assets are not present in the soundtrack and are decoys.