Footnotes

Traverse seven randomly generated levels littered with hundreds of folded footnotes from Metagaming, a book by by Patrick LeMieux (alt254) and Stephanie Boluk (chouxsalad)!

A field, a forest, a desert, a cave, a city, a mountain, a beach, a game.

Footnotes is a 3D platformer which invites players to explore a series of procedurally generated worlds filled with 278 footnotes from Metagaming, a book we wrote about the games people play in, on, around, and through videogames (as well as the games people play with books!)

Toward the end of Metagaming, we say “reading this text, writing in the margins, dog-earing pages, and bending the spine or annotating online, sharing across servers, printing out passages, or loading on e-readers are all ways of metagaming Metagaming.” So what if we turned the book into a game? What if we skipped the book and just read the footnotes?

Beyond its low-poly aesthetic and paper plane collectables, Footnotes features a series of small secrets, environmental puzzles, and intentional physics glitches that pull the player from playing the game to playing the game engine itself as a means to meditate on various endgames—from American politics to the anthropocene.

Reviews
"Footnotes is an exploration game that combines study and play, introducing players to nuggets of games academia . . . while wandering through colorful spaces." —Heather Alexandra, Kotaku

Updates
Updated 10/07/18 9:00AM PST to add save and continue on the first playthrough!
Updated 10/06/18 5:30PM PST to correct Xbox 360 default mappings on Win.
Updated 10/06/18 10:00AM PST to add our names to the title screen!
Updated 10/05/18 7:40PM PST with some last minute fixes :)
Thanks to regisRquoi for finding some bugs!