![]() ![]() At light-speed, and with eye-massaging flushes of emerald green and azure blue, the environment transforms into lush vegetation. Starting with arid desert, it’s up to the player to rewild a landscape using various technologies – a toxin scrubber, for example, or a beehive. Dubbed a “city-builder in reverse”, it foregoes the consumption and expansion of genre classics such as Civilisation and SimCity to paint a picture of environmental restoration. Terra Nil, the video game that Alfred has been developing since 2019, is a response to these terrifying events. The situation even called for its own grim version of the Doomsday Clock: hour by hour, the city ticked ever closer to Day Zero, marking the end of its fresh water supply. Dams were unable to replenish themselves at the rate its inhabitants required. During 2018, the area surrounding South Africa’s second largest city suffered months of dwindling rainfall. It made you realise how, despite all the sophistication of modern society, we’re still reliant on water falling from the sky.” Sam Alfred, the lead designer at Cape Town-based video game studio Free Lives, vividly remembers his city nearly running out of water. ![]()
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