Le Pouce: The Doomscroll Game

Le Pouce is a satirical game about doomscrolling. It looks like an endless feed of short videos. Then the feed slowly empties. The game only ends when you stop scrolling. It sounds easy. Your thumb disagrees. THE FEED It starts out comfortable: varied videos, huge like counts, lively comments. Then the videos repeat, the captions turn to clickbait and fake ads pile up. The colors fade. The comments stop making sense. THE VOID Eventually there is nothing left but gray screens and silence. Except that, every now and then, something happens. A joke. A fake notification. A captcha that makes fun of you. Just enough to make you think: one more swipe. THE END Stop touching the screen for a few seconds and the game is over. Then you see what you just did, in numbers: how far your thumb traveled, how many screens you went through, and how long you spent scrolling through nothing. SHARE IT Turn…