This practice is a core ritual in the book’s fictional religion of Mercerism, meant to encourage empathy. Through this device, he and thousands of others see and hear what the climber sees and hears and more importantly, feel what the climber feels as he is hit by falling stones. There’s a scene in Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in which protagonist Rick Deckard uses a VR device to experience the feeling of climbing up a mountain. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy Steam store description
Review: Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 30 December 2017Ī game I made for a certain kind of person.