ADR1FT was a freaky concept back when it was a movie starring Sandra Bullock. Following a catastrophic accident, the player floats through the wreckage of a space station trying to stitch together the events leading up to the event and figure out how to Mark Watney your way back to earth, all while maintaining your oxygen levels.
Following the controversy surrounding creator’s “deal with it” moment a couple years back, Adam Orth founded Three One Zero Digital Entertainment and the early concepts for the first-person interactive game were conceived. Orth describes the game as, “(Your goals) in ADR1FT are to stay alive and repair the mainframe computers required to operate the EEV and return home safely. You accomplish this by exploring the damaged station and repairing your suit and the mainframes over the course of the experience. As you explore the wreckage, you uncover the stories of your crew and in turn learn about who you are and what happened to the station.”
He also compares the themes of the game to the usurping of his life following the Microsoft DRM controversy by saying, “I created ADR1FT in the aftermath of my Twitter incident as a way to deal with the devastating effect it had on my life and to turn the negative to positive through creativity and a game experience. That experience was incredibly surreal, vicious and toxic. I wasn’t sure if I had the tools to cope with something of that magnitude.”
While comparisons to Gravity are easy and likely to only intensify the more the public is exposed to the new IP, the fact that the game will also host Oculus Rift compatibility is something that will help move you away from the spectator approach a movie and firmly into an immersed and invested experience of a fully interactive video game.
