Games that Make You Part of the Ecosystem

Discover 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. --- 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 Copyright Disclaimer: Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. All video/image content is edited under fair use rights for reasons of commentary. 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 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ #CuriousArchive #Worldbuilding