I would like every game to ask me to take The Photo Of God
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Summary
The Photo of God is a short, free game that can be accessed here on Itch.
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In the game, the player is a photographer who wants to take a picture of God.
To do this they must first take photos of birds.
The game is purgatorial and eerie, providing a flavour of cosmic dread and hubris that is encapsulated in the title alone.
The writer believes that the game lends itself to conceptual transformation when applied to other agnostic games with photographic mechanics, and imagines what this could mean in practice, such as interpreting Ghost Recon: Wildlands in this way.
They propose the idea of adding a new Steam achievement to the game “take a photo of God” as an example of how The Photo of God concept could be transformative.
They would enjoy reading threads of people striving to do likewise, and suggest that they can start the ball rolling on this idea without waiting for the achievement in a game to do so.
