I think I struck a nerve, in a good way, when I asked about the game’s narrative. He got into the head of a potential janitor: “I tried cleaning it all, but instead got distracted and started painting famous actors’ faces on the walls with my blood mop!” “I’m not sure our janitor actually has a narrative, though. “Logan must have snuck that in while I wasn’t looking! I’ll make sure to rollback his changes.”Īrn chimed in: “We try (and are trying harder now) to add the story of what happened to the places the hero and the ‘invasion’ through the maps themselves. Viscera Cleanup Detail lacks combat as well as a prescribed way to win the game, instead focusing on creative ways to accomplish what might be seen as unfortunate tasks. That very question parlayed into a game that rejects the FPS genre. “Then Arn said, ‘What if you play as the guy that has to clean up the mess of other games and heroes?’” The Richerts live in Howick, a small town in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. “There were a lot of ideas flying around the table, mostly pretty cynical things,” Nolan typed in our Skype interview. Īccording to the Richert brothers, Viscera Cleanup Detail is a space-station janitor simulator.
Maybe an un-game––something that’s disruptive, a challenge to a medium’s tropes, like a Charlie Kaufman script, or Alan Moore/Dave Gibbon’s post-superhero comic Watchmen. If there’s one thing you should know about the three who make up Runestorm, it’s this: they’re looking to clean up the filthy genre of first-person shooters, starting with a game that’s not an FPS at all. These janitorial duties were outlined by the three guys behind Viscera Cleanup Detail- brothers Arn, Nolan and Logan Richert, who handle level designing, programming and scripting, depending on the day. The pay and health benefits are to be determined. Must be self-motivated and willing to work alone for long stretches. Responsibilities include but are not limited to mopping up blood and incinerating the entrails of heroes and aliens. The small team at Runestorm is looking for janitors to sign up for Viscera Cleanup Detail, currently in an alpha build.
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