A
preview on Kotaku introduces
>Adr1ft, a non-violent first-person game
that sounds loosely based on
Gravity, as it "poses the player as an
astronaut who begins the game floating above Earth amid the debris of a
mostly-wrecked space station." The game was shown in prototype form at the
D.I.C.E. Summit by Adam Orth, the former Microsoft employee who infamously
tweeted "deal with it" to followers irate over the rumors about always-on DRM
plans for Xbox One (which turned out to be accurate before MS reversed course in
light of the outrage). In fact, Orth invokes this by telling them that creating
the game was how he chose to "deal with it" when his tweets turned into an
enormous PR disaster, and he suggests that some of the twists in the story are
allegories to his experience. The project is being shopped around, with the
hopes of creating a finished game for Windows, OS X, Linux, Xbox One, and
PlayStation 4. Here's a bit that gives the sense of what they are calling a
"beautiful" game: "Orth figures >Adr1ft could be classified as an FPX, a
first-person experience, a decidedly non-confrontational game that will let
players explore. They will also be on a mission, moving through five areas and
confronting a series of procedurally-generated puzzles involving electronics
repair. "