Berlin Flat Quest

Bastien, here. Maker of Berlin Flat Quest. 👋 I'm super happy & proud to introduce you to BFQ today. 🎉 Berlin Flat Quest recreates the painful process of finding accomodation in Berlin through a series of comedic mini-games. Each mini-game is a reimagining of classic arcade games, complete with pixel art, a twisted sense of humor and nice synthwave. Under the comedic nature of the game, a subtext points out themes like racial discrimination or erratic public housing policies made by the city. ⌛ Background Everybody in Berlin has stories when it comes to flat-hunting. It involves weird characters, strange situations. Those stories are comedic in nature, but they also tell a lot about the difficult housing market here. Having heard a lot of them over the years, I decided to turn them into a game. 🙌 👤Who is behind this I'm the one behind the original idea, concept and writing. This is because since 10 years, I'm also a blogger with settle-in-berlin.com. I help newcomers move to Germany/Berlin with guides on how to beat local bureaucracy. (read more about me here) I was helped by my brother, who is a game designer. He did all the coding. We hired pixel artists for some of the art, and did the rest ourselves. 📣What's the point/message? With rent prices nearly doubling since 2011, flat-hunting in Berlin has become increasingly competitive and depressing. I wanted to create a catharsis for people to have fun with our common frustration. I also wanted to pointed out some hard truths like the fact that people with foreign-sounding names have less chances to get a flat than people with German names. I also wanted to talk about choices made by the city that really impacted negatively the housing market for tenants. 💡Inspiration Apart from the obvious arcade titles: - Secret of Monkey Island's swordfighting - Toggle.io's @Unicorn Startup Simulator Have fun with it and tell me what your score is! 🏆

I loved this! So funny and so true. Berlin is special like that. It surely relates to other big and growing cities, but not many.