History from Underground

2023
Game

design, modeling, environment art, programming by Wendi Yan
selected models by Luma AI
AI NPC trained with Inworld

Game download (PC only)

In an alien archaeology lab filled with giant fungi and bronze sculptures, the player confronts a moving artifact—a specially trained AI—which speaks, literally, to the player about the cosmic beginnings of everything, Daoist philosophy of civilization and history, and “Mammoth Technologies” (coined by the artist).