About the project
A photography game, set in one kampung yard on a bright morning. A client sends a brief — three pictures, each with one specific thing they want — and the camera you are handed is a real one: aperture, shutter speed and ISO run through the standard photographic formulas, Godot’s physical camera turns them into the rendered picture, and the same formulas mark the result. Open the aperture and the background falls away, but the frame fills with light; speed the shutter up to stop the hen mid–step and the light drains out again; buy it back with ISO and the picture goes grainy. That trade is the game. The photograph itself is built by rendering the exposure up to eight times and averaging the frames, so a slow shutter genuinely smears what was moving, and every mark on the report carries the number it came from — “the cat at 2.8 m; sharp from 2.7 m to 2.9 m” — and says which dial to turn next time. Around it sit a main menu, a photo album that keeps every accepted picture, an illustrated guide to the camera and a fighting–game–style control list that lights up the key you just pressed. 192 checks hold it in place, including one that renders the yard and insists a real camera’s settings expose it correctly.