Controls:

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     Keyboard & Mouse:

          -WASD rotates the picked-up burger.

          -Escape exits fullscreen view.

          -Note that fullscreen play may result in a lower frame rate.

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Synopsis:

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Burger Inspector ’94: Cheese Edition is an experimental narrative game in which you embody a quality assurance worker at a fast food company. Your task is to inspect a single burger, but what begins as a typical work shift may soon turn surreal and slightly horrific.

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Linking various ideas such as the body, consciousness, and consumption, Burger Inspector ’94: Cheese Edition seeks to highlight the violence and oppression intrinsic to capitalist economies. Furthermore, this title situates itself among growing niche genres such as workplace and interface horror.

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Origins:

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Burger Inspector '94: Cheese Edition was developed during the Eat (the) Rich! Game Jam for A MAZE Berlin: 13th International Games & Playful Media Festival. The game was exhibited online and in-person during the festival in Berlin, Germany from May 8th - 11th, 2024. All game submissions may be viewed here:

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https://itch.io/jam/eat-the-rich

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Further Exhibition:

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Burger Inspector '94: Cheese Edition was also accepted to the group exhibition, Glitch'N'Games, curated by Bee Nix as a component of their MFA thesis. The exhibition took place at LIKELIKE Neo-Arcade & Playful Arts Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA on October 4th, 2024.

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Nix writes, "This response echoed one of the exhibition's recurring questions: when systems break or resist interpretation, what compels us to keep playing? Burger Inspector doesn't answer - it performs the question (Nix, 38)." Nix's complete MFA thesis may be read via The Internet Archive here:

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https://archive.org/details/glitch_play/mode/1up?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social...