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SIMULATION / WEB-NATIVE

We Become What We Behold.

We Become What We Behold is a short game about a crowd and the pictures selected for a news screen. You frame moments with a camera and watch the crowd respond as the sequence develops. The creator’s itch.io page is the original entry linked by the source repository. Its themes include escalating hostility and violence, so read the page’s content notice before starting.

Web-nativePointer first
Open original game ↗ (opens a new tab)

Opens the project’s game host.

We Become What We Behold project illustration
Original opening background artwork from Nicky Case’s We Become What We Behold source. It is an asset, not a captured playthrough. Source & credits (opens a new tab)
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YOUR FIRST SESSION

Your first few moves.

Jump to controls ↓
  1. 01

    Read the creator’s notice

    Decide whether its violence and tone suit the session.

  2. 02

    Frame an ordinary moment

    Watch the feedback after the picture.

  3. 03

    Observe the crowd’s response

    Follow the relationship between the screen and the characters.

KEEP THIS HANDY

Controls at a glance.

Pointer position
Frame the camera over the crowd.
Click
Take a picture when the game permits it.
Visible prompts
Read the feedback and advance the sequence.

Framing is the main action

You control which part of the crowd the camera records. Read the current feedback after taking a picture rather than clicking rapidly at every character. The game connects that choice to the sequence around you, so the response after the picture is part of the interaction, not merely decoration around the camera.

Expect the tone to change

The creator describes news cycles and vicious cycles. The work includes violence and escalating hostility. Review the original page before opening it with children, in a classroom or in a shared setting. This entry keeps later scenes undescribed so the relationship between the crowd and the screen can be encountered in the game.

Open the creator’s published version

The repository directs players to Nicky Case’s itch.io page. The former guessed ncase.me path was not used because it returns a missing-page response. The source is useful for credits and implementation, while the published creator page provides the current launch and content information. A code licence does not erase the separate credits for audio and rendering libraries.

BEFORE YOU CLOSE THE TAB

What happens to your progress?

A portable campaign backup was not established by the reviewed documentation. Treat the linked game and this site’s Saved shortlist as separate records.

Check the save and backup guide ↗

A FEW USEFUL ANSWERS

Before the next click.

Why does the play link open itch.io?

That is the creator-published game entry linked by the original repository.

Is it suitable for every age?

Read the creator’s content notice. The story includes violence and hostility.

KEEP GOING

A useful next read.

Choose a game for the controls you have. ↗

Follow the source.

Nicky Case; individual sound and library credits in repository. Licence notice. CC0 original code and art; third-party sounds and libraries have separate notices.

Latest collected source change: Merge pull request #63 from turquoise8/master (opens a new tab) . Repository activity does not identify the hosted game version.

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