Sweetly melancholic and slightly absurdist, Wächtler's art deals with "change and the impossibility of it, the lie of it and the idea of another self", creating "a looping environment with characters fixed and paralysed by the wish for personal change, unable to perceive that you are still the same idiot watching a different sea".
It's also quite good at games where you want to be a bit ambiguous about the space you are in, or experiment with players' relationship with the environment or with characters.
The plan was to create a virtual environment with animated characters who would be able to speak (anonymously) and hear everyone else in the sessions.
"You're in an environment and interacting with characters trying to accomplish something," he said.
For the PlayStation Vita remake, the gameplay takes place in 3D environments with fully rendered character models.
Created over the course of a year, the sequel to 2012's Dubstep Dinosaurs features a journey back to a Cretaceous Era rave with environments and characters created using motion capture, the Unreal engine, music by Vacate, and more 3D stegosauruses in pajamas than you can un-invite to a dance party.
He vivified the soul-killing toll of long oppression with such labyrinthine environments as "Ten Characters," first installed at the Ronald Feldman gallery, in 1988.
"You feel you're in that environment as a first person, integrating with characters.
It's reading that piques your brain, offering puzzles to solve, environments with which to interact, and characters to get to know.
To make a next generation massively multiplayer game with characters that interact with the environment, a more robust and integrated ecosystem is required.
Bethseda has given players loads of items, environments and characters to play around with, including the so-called 'Shishkebab' - an upgraded version of the flaming sword weapon that first made an appearance in Fallout 3. The Shishkebab in Fallout 3 was little more than a lawnmower blade with a motorbike fuel tank attached.
