Phone Story
Phone Story is a game for smartphone devices that attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform. Under the shiny surface of our electronic gadgets, behind its polished interface…
Phone Story is an arcade developed by Molleindustria, released 13 September 2011 on Android, iOS, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.
What Phone Story is
Phone Story is an arcade game developed by Molleindustria and released in 2011. It is available on Android, iOS, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Phone Story is a game for smartphone devices that attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform. Under the shiny surface of our electronic gadgets, behind its polished interface, hides the product of a troubling supply chain that stretches across the globe. Phone Story represents this process with four educational games that make the player symbolically complicit in coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labor in China, e-waste in Pakistan and gadget consumerism in the West.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Phone Story launched on 13 September 2011, within three weeks of Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Shadow of the Colossus (2011) and Gears of War 3.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Shadow of the Colossus (2011), Gears of War 3.
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