FATALE: Exploring Salomé

Description

Fatale is a first person experience. You play John the Baptist. Mostly. Most of the time. Perhaps you start playing as yourself towards the end. As usual, we like to leave as much as possible open to interpretation. Part of Fatale is played with traditional "First Person Shooter" game controls. But you don't have a gun. It's more like "First Person Waiting". You wait for your execution. Then, when you're dead, the bulk of the experience starts. It takes place on a terrace at night. Everything is still. Literally. This is the scene after the dramatic event. Most of the people have gone. Only Herodias, Salome and your executioner are still on the terrace. They're just standing there, doing nothing. You float around looking at things on the terrace. These things hopefully inspire imagination and interpretation, so you can make up your own story about what happened here. There's a game-like structure to this exploration, in the sense that there are a series of flames and when you extinguish a flame next to one scene, other scenes light up. That way a threaded sequence happens, which takes you slowly towards dawn, when the program ends.

History

Fatale was launched on 5 October 2009, the 78th anniversary of the first performance in England of Oscar Wilde's “Salome”.

Features

• Fly.
• Float.
• Control.
• Examine.
• Explore.