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Palace of Ceremonies (R. Dzhorbenadze, V. Orbeladze) Tbilisi, Georgia, 1985 Photographer Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chaubin reveals buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture. His poetic pictures reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no school or main trend emerges here. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Sovietpunk is taking that visual aesthetic and bringing it into the more cyberbunk future. I’ve been working with an artist based in St. Petersburg named Evgeny Zubkov<\/em> whose produced many pieces of Sovietpunk. He’s allowed us to use his concepts and implement them into the game, which I’m incredibly excited about, as his vision for the world really encompasses the vision of what a true retro-Sovietpunk future is like, but serve as a fantastic mood-board. Take a look!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The player controls a sentient robot named FyED-OR<\/em> (Fye-Door) or in Cyrillic: \u0424\u0451\u0434\u043e\u0440<\/em>, whose mission is unknown. They wake up in a metal scrap compactor without a clue of why they’re there. Turns out, FyED-OR used to be an old, unused and long-forgotten, robot with magnetitic appendages– this lets FyED-OR essentially grapple to<\/strong> and away<\/strong> (depending on polarity) from metallic surfaces. The lore and narrative arch of the game is still a work in progress, but the game mechanic is there: you as the player will solve problems with magnetism and polarization! Think Portal and Portal 2 style gameplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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