Owen Deery of Fire Face has announced a new game coming to PS4, an adventure he himself calls "strange." Your mission is to search old factories for data cassette tapes that, when played, open new worlds for you to explore.
In Small Radios Big Televisions your main goal is to find cassettes and slam ‘em into your tape deck. Your tape deck is different though. Instead of just playing audio, these tapes contain entirely different worlds for you to explore. This idea came about when I was thinking (in light of the recent virtual reality explosion), “What if you could put on a virtual reality album the same way you do with a music album, or a movie?”
Deery chose tapes specifically because of their reaction to magnetic fields. Depending on where you play the tape (if you're near a large magnetic field, for example), the tape can be warped, thus changing the world within it.
Small Radios Big Televisions is a game about exploring digital places stored in analog media. Travel through the deserted structures of disused factories, finding tapes of virtual worlds left behind. Some of these tapes may contain clues to help you progress, some need to have their worlds distorted and ripped apart by magnetic fields to discover what’s stored inside.
Music and sound design are a massive part of the game as well. I want it to feel like you’re hearing the soundtrack played back through an old tape deck with big bass-y headphones. All the music in the game is synthesised and bare-bones to manage that retrowave feel.
Sony has released an announcement trailer for the title, as well.
Small Radios Big Television will be coming to PS4, but the release date is still unknown.
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