Metamorphosis
In Metamorphosis you can explore identity and freedom of choice through playful interactions with prisms, colours, and gender themes, especially drawing inspiration from works by Olafur Eliasson, Andy Warhol, and Sif Itona Westerberg at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark.
Originally created by Team Puzlerne at a cultural game jam in Aarhus and later matured in collaboration with the game studio Mothworks, Metamorphosis was selected from over 100 youth-made games across Europe as a part of the Horizon Europe funded project EPIC-WE.
Metamorphosis is a game for culture created in the EPIC-WE project. It is the result of a collaboration between a team of young people who have participated in one of the EPIC-WE Cultural Game Jams at AroS Art Museum and the game studio Mothworks.
The Metamorphosis game is one of two cultural games that has been selected by Filmby Aarhus, ARoS, Aarhus University, and the young participants of the Cultural Game Jams from a pool of around 100 games through and for culture, created by youth across Europe in the EPIC-WE project.
The initial game for culture prototype was created by Team Puzlerne, four young people who participated in the second Cultural Game Jam in Aarhus. The game invites you into an empowering experience of "the freedom to choose who you are" and draws on artworks from the ARoS Art Museum collections. Especially, Olafur Eliasson, Andy Warhol, and Sif Itona Westerberg, to offer the player a cultural gameworld with powerful aesthetics and playful interactions with prisms, colours, and gender motifs.
The final result has been created in close collaboration between Team Puzlerne and Mothworks, resulting in a unique synergy between young people and professional game designers. It is a strong testament to the empowering and innovative potential of merging youth voices, cultural heritage, and European values, with game design in the EPIC-WE project.
License
We are releasing the original source code under the GPLv3 license: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html#license-text. The source code can be found through: https://epic-we.au.dk/featured-games/metamorphosis
We are releasing original assets (images, animations, sound, music, etc.) under the CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The assets can be found through: https://epic-we.au.dk/featured-games/metamorphosis
The game is developed with Unity.
"Metamorphosis is not sponsored by or affiliated with Unity Technologies or its affiliates. Unity and the Unity logo are trademarks of Unity Technologies or its affiliates in the U.S. and elsewhere."