Cameron A. Granger Releases Apollo in the Crosshairs: Play

Cameron A. Granger has released Apollo in the Crosshairs, a free browser game on itch.io that takes about 10 minutes to play. Granger shared it in announcement clips on Instagram. Watch a clip below.

In it, you play a defense contractor tasked with scanning the world for uses, both unknown and presumed, and it passes innocently enough. You're thinking about vacation and sleep when a mysterious woman on the beach opens up an entire world. She is trouble, and she is Shiva.

Granger says the project began as an attempt at a first-person shooter, and calls the result "a hate poem for the surveillance state." But it draws heavily on the lineage of Paolo Pedercini's UNMANNED, with a twist only a fan of Carré or Steve McQueen's Widows would love.

The soundtrack uses two Laraaji tracks and a Ryuichi Sakamoto sample, and the collage includes GIFs from the Internet Archive's GifCities.

Apollo in the Crosshairs is Granger's third browser game, begun as a break between larger projects, and bears all the chaotic chiaroscuro that has become a trademark for his game work. Granger is an alum of the Studio Museum in Harlem and also works in film. The previous release, Sidechain, is built around a Columbus warehouse party.

For more reading, see Killscreen on Sidechain, playing the surveillance state in Orwell and the game's itch.io page.