Games that Make You Part of the Ecosystem
83,813Discover the virtual ecosystems that make you part of the food chain. A meditation on games with worlds designed to make you feel like a small player in a much wider environment.
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It’s a unique experience when a game makes you feel truly unimportant — like you’re just a tiny part of a much larger environment. When a title successfully instills this feeling, it can be like witnessing a sort of magic trick. So what I’d like to do today is take you backstage and explore how different games succeed in making you part of their ecosystems…
0:00 Video Game Ecosystems
1:09 Part of the Food Chain
4:06 Changing Perspectives
6:07 The Power of Insignificance
8:47 Tears of the Kingdom
12:13 On Biomes
15:09 Endling
17:52 A Dark Future
20:02 Hope for Tomorrow
Media Shown: Planet of Lana, Webbed, Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Rain World, Minecraft, Endling, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Horizon: Forbidden West, Subnautica, Subnauitca: Below Zero, Skyrim, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Additional Footage from:
Wolfire Games: https://www.youtube.com/@WolfireGames
D4rw1N: https://www.youtube.com/@D4rw1N
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I do not own the images, music, or footage used in this video. All rights and credit goes to the original owners.
♫ Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio:
Mysterious Green Fluid, Sanity Unravels, Haddonfield Horror
♫ Additional music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):
Infinite, Beauty Flow, Majestic Hills, Second Coming – No Percussion, Bittersweet, Floating Cities
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