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About Progetto Ustica
Progetto Ustica is a serious game that aims at keeping alive the memory of one of the most tragic events in recent Italian history. It is a short exploratory experience created for PC/MAC and, soon, supporting Oculus Rift VR and HTC Vive.
Progetto Ustica recreates the main events of the 50 minutes flight of the ITAVIA DC9 shot down from the sky over the Tyrrhenian Sea at 8:58 PM on June 27, 1980. The project aims at keeping alive the memory of this event attracting also those who do not know anything about it.
Progetto Ustica benefits from the help of Daria Bonfietti and Andrea Benetti of the Associazione parenti delle vittime della strage di Ustica and from the support of Carlo Lucarelli and Bottega finzioni, whose students are working on the research and educational materials of the project.
Progetto Ustica puts the player inside the DC9 shortly after its take off, from a first person point of view. The player explores its cabin, interacts with objects and people, and finds several objects that unlock additional features:
- new points of view, freely selectable by the player, that show what is happening from the perspective of the military aircrafts, a radar vision that encompasses the whole scenario, a lone nocturnal fisherman watching the sky, and more;
- audio transcripts of that night radio communications, both between the DC9 and the control towers contacted during the flight and between military aircrafts and their control centers;
- contextual information on the military activity in the Tyrrhenian Sea, new hints on events of that night and on what followed: investigations, cover-ups, suspicious deaths, and more.
The player retraces the events of that night through multiple points of view, each one contributing to build a different path among several cameras.
Progetto Ustica is not intended as a scientifically accurate recreation of facts, or as an investigative game that aims at discovering the truth. Progetto Ustica is a game for memory. some details of the scenario are true, others are plausible. we leave the player the task to further research and not to forget.
Progetto Ustica recreates the main events of the 50 minutes flight of the ITAVIA DC9 shot down from the sky over the Tyrrhenian Sea at 8:58 PM on June 27, 1980. The project aims at keeping alive the memory of this event attracting also those who do not know anything about it.
Progetto Ustica benefits from the help of Daria Bonfietti and Andrea Benetti of the Associazione parenti delle vittime della strage di Ustica and from the support of Carlo Lucarelli and Bottega finzioni, whose students are working on the research and educational materials of the project.
Progetto Ustica puts the player inside the DC9 shortly after its take off, from a first person point of view. The player explores its cabin, interacts with objects and people, and finds several objects that unlock additional features:
- new points of view, freely selectable by the player, that show what is happening from the perspective of the military aircrafts, a radar vision that encompasses the whole scenario, a lone nocturnal fisherman watching the sky, and more;
- audio transcripts of that night radio communications, both between the DC9 and the control towers contacted during the flight and between military aircrafts and their control centers;
- contextual information on the military activity in the Tyrrhenian Sea, new hints on events of that night and on what followed: investigations, cover-ups, suspicious deaths, and more.
The player retraces the events of that night through multiple points of view, each one contributing to build a different path among several cameras.
Progetto Ustica is not intended as a scientifically accurate recreation of facts, or as an investigative game that aims at discovering the truth. Progetto Ustica is a game for memory. some details of the scenario are true, others are plausible. we leave the player the task to further research and not to forget.
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I wish I could give this game a positive review because what is trying to achieve is of paramount importance, however the game is just broken. Perhaps I was unlucky, but I found it just very frustrating: clunky controls, no way to rebind the keys without restarting the game, no in-game options, at all. I get that the focus of the game is to let many people know what happened many years ago, how NATO murdered innocent Italian people getting scot off free; if the game is so clunky to be unplayable, people can only click the information they find in the start menu. At this point they might as well avoid downloading 2GB of game and just open a web page to read what happened.7 found this helpful
Un'idea molto bella quella di cercare di incuriosire le persone su questo gravissimo caso e le molte domande che ancora restano. Purtroppo c'e' qualche bug. Anche la freccia che dovrebbe indicare dov'e' l'indizio da trovare indica due direzioni diverse a seconda del punto dalla quale la si guarda e non sono riuscito a completare la storia. Ma apprezzo molto lo sforzo di creare un videogioco e di rilasciarlo gratuitamente.2 found this helpful
gamesense1 found this helpful
Игра 'Progetto Ustica' – это пронзительный и глубоко травмирующий интерактивный опыт. Она не развлекает, а заставляет чувствовать и сопереживать. Визуально минималистичная, но невероятно эффективная, игра погружает игрока в атмосферу хаоса и дезориентации, окружавшую падение рейса DC-9 близ Устики в 1980 году. Отсутствие внятных объяснений и необходимость самостоятельно собирать обрывочные данные имитируют сложность расследования и отсутствие однозначных ответов, окружающих эту трагедию. Игра фокусируется не на поиске виновных, а на передаче чувства потери и незаживающей боли, которую она оставила. Это не игра в привычном понимании, а скорее интерактивная инсталляция, поднимающая важные вопросы о памяти, ответственности и ценности человеческой жизни. 'Progetto Ustica' оставляет тягостное, но необходимое послевкусие, заставляющее задуматься о забытых трагедиях и их последствиях. Рекомендована не для развлечения, а для тех, кто готов принять тяжелый, но важный опыт.
This game (free) helps to never forget. Anyone of us could have been a passenger on the DC9 Itavia, a civil plane doing a ruotine-job, while instead the security of Italian-civil sky was not assured by lack of technical competence and will (to cover different types of "interests"). Shame on those guilty for having put personal interests before their public/national roles. Shame on them, may the hell on earth take them.
wtf is this.
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