Hi, I'm HHRRIISSTT. I’m a human person who has been working in app dev for the last 6+ years, and I decided to make a game.

Some games just transport you. The ones with living, breathing worlds that reward curiosity, where every system interlocks and every corner has a story. Morrowind, Deus Ex, Caves of Qud, Final Fantasy, etc. And comics too. BLAME! especially. Rereading BLAME! recently unlocked something in me. If you know, you know.

INURBIS is my attempt at that kind of world. A dark sci-fi immersive sim RPG, the kind where you pull a lever and feel the whole city breathe, ancient and alive, concrete and organic, indifferent to the hand that touched it.

The setting began life as a beat 'em up pixel RPG (inspired by Legend of Mana), drawn from a comic I'd written years earlier. What will mankind look like at its very last breath? What if the things we reached for to extend that breath had horrible consequences? Like many things humanity has reached for, there are always those ready to corrupt it via their own ignorance. INURBIS is set deep inside that consequence.

We're watching something old resurface. The same hungers, dressed in new clothes, worming their way into positions they should never hold. Those who take without looking back. Those who don't know love or humility. Those few with too much. It's not hard to recognize them. What if they got everything they ever wanted? Past politics, past planet, past time itself. What terrors might they unleash to keep their own clocks ticking?

The squirrels in my neighborhood have been watching us for a long time. They move along the bones of our civilization. Across the power lines, the rooftops, the gaps between things we built without thinking about who else might live there. To them, our structure is just the world. Generations of survivors, thriving in the cracks. What does it mean to live inside someone else's dream? What does it look like when that dream is a nightmare? And those fools are grasping at immortality. What if they get it?

My health has been a huge struggle for the last few years, and as I feel my own clock slowing down, I am finally locked in with the motivation and inspiration to create my own world and share it with others. I want to create something that fully exposes the darkness of humanity, but delights in the life that thrives under our noses.

I hope INURBIS can offer some solace to our own dreary contrivances.