Dharmic Junkpunk

GAME INFO:
Controls: Arrow keys to move around. Z key to interact. Everything with a black outline can be interacted with. 
Known bug: you may have to reposition yourself until you can interact with an object or NPC because of how the hitboxes are misaligned. 

LORE:
You are a wanderer Techno-Buddhist monk known to some as the Silicon Sage. Having taken the Bodhisattva vow to save all beings from rebirth and suffering, it is your duty to restore and repair shrines dedicated to the supercomputer known as Cyber-Buddha, a most wise and compassionate being that has attained enlightenment and leads others to do the same. To this end, you must scavenge for resources to help liberate these beings. Your tools are simple, you possess a 3D printer you call your Vajra, your thunderbolt, your diamond that cuts through illusion. 

In a far future, the Post-Anthropocene, remnants of human civilization are intermittently scattered throughout a barren yet peaceful landscape stretching endlessly into the horizon. Temples, factories, shrines, spaceships, abandoned buildings, cargo ships run aground, skeletons of long dead colossal beasts. These are all legacies of the industrial superstructure that no longer exists.

However, there are still small communities persevering in the vast wilderness in ruined cities like the hilltop sanctuary known as Sumeru City. There is yet still beauty and humanity to be found here. Humans live side by side in cooperation with androids possessing general artificial intelligence (AGI) and the capacity for suffering. The inhabitants make a living scavenging materials left by the people who lived countless years ago.

This short exploration RPG takes place in Sumeru City, where the Silicon Sage will explore, interact with inhabitants and collect materials in order to repair and restore shrines to the Cyber-Buddha. This will lead to the liberation of sentient beings, including thinking feeling machines, from suffering and discontentment.

This game was made for Otter Jam 2023.