Report on the Death of Robert Evergreen, one of the projects of the 2023 NYU Game Center Incubator cohort, has been nominated for the Live Action category Indiecade award. Since its inception in 2005 Indiecade has been the only festival in the US that focus and supports exclusively independent games and it’s been compared to the Sundance festival, but for games.
The game is also running for the Grand Jury Award, Jury Prix, Innovation in Experience Design, Innovation in Interaction Design, and Developer’s Choice Awards. “The Local Rag was absolutely honored and delighted to receive news of these nominations'' says Sarah Doherty Granoff, project manager and narrative designer from the Local Rag, the team behind the game, “We are deeply grateful to everyone who has seen so much potential in our game thus far.”
Report on the Death of Robert Evergreen is a narrative journalism game about the unique social, political, and cultural environment of New York City in the early 1990s. As the newly hired editor-in-chief of struggling local newspaper The Local Rag, the player must decide how stories will be told in the paper’s headline articles. In making these decisions, the player must balance their own morals, journalistic ethics, and the need to keep their newspaper in business. The game can be played digitally and in a hybrid format that involves listening to interviews using an analog audio cassette recorder.
“I can’t wait to see where the team will take the project now” shares Matteo Uguzzoni, NYU Game Center Incubator admin, the program that is incubating the project “Report on the Death of Robert Evergreen has the potential to become a multi-hour experience exploring hidden New York stories that can be very interesting for a publisher looking for new audiences, that’s why our Advisory Board members selected it for the program.”