VINES

Vines is a first-person, PSX-style procedural horror game about being hired to document a dangerous creature that has control over the sentient vines in its ruined containment facility.

"Welcome, hire, to Underground Facility 17 (UF-17) of the Association for the Rescue and Targeted Endangerment Mitigation of Irregular Species (or ARTEMIS). 

ARTEMIS’s aim is to study and rehabilitate pairs of creatures that have been found to coexist suspiciously well in their natural habitats, despite a history of aggression between the observed species’ average members. For instance, you may have seen a viral video of a dog and a cheetah, or a tiger and a monkey playing together. ARTEMIS believes that these are falsehoods—aberrations in the brain chemistry of predators and prey that warrant further scrutiny than the trivialization of short-lived virality. 

ARTEMIS UF-17 previously housed two subjects: Subject 9, a bear, and Subject 10, a moose. ARTEMIS operatives recorded the two engaging in a complex, hunter-gatherer-esque relationship, wherein they taught each other how to run down prey and assess the nutritional value of various berries, among other things. The most damning aspect of the relationship, what the operatives labeled most "irregular," was the fact that they were inseparable during sleep. The bear adopted the moose’s sleeping habits, forgoing hibernation in favor of exercise and vastly altering its diet, fat content, musculature, and temperament. The two slept in a den, nestled amongst various species of ivy and moss torn from nearby trees.

Subjects 9 and 10 were uprooted from their natural habitat together, according to protocol, and had spent the last few weeks in captivity at UF-17 until the incident..."

(Work-in-progress version.)