How far would you go for a piece of pizza?

What would you do for a pizza slice? This is how The Pizza Situation starts, a narrative Simulator videogame from the minds of Clara Aler, Andrea López and Anna Guxens (Audiovisual Comunication students at UPF). The game follows Roni, a boy that will have to use his social media as his only tool to avoid his friends to eat his Super Special Extra Pizza at tonight’s party.

This graphic adventure is a letter from their creators to warn the players of the ill uses of social media, by using satire and stressing the difference between real profiles and online personas.  With a light hearted and parodic tone, the game allows the players to push their moral boundaries, as they’ll have to make profit from their friends’ online publication, their privacy, prejudices… to advance the story.

Interesting, eh? The videogame, designed for PC, was born as a final degree project in the Comunication Audiovisuap degree and was developed in the current game design document.

For the experienced gamers, The Pizza Situation bring a new point of view at the narrative puzzle genre, and for the newbies: What a better way to begin the videogame journey that with good slice of pizza?