Something Something Soup Something

Something Something Soup Something is a free browser video game (also released on Microsoft Windows, MacOS, and Linux) and "interactive thought experiment"[1] developed by Stefano Gualeni and his team at the Institute of Digital Games.[2] It was released in late 2017. In the game, the player must decide whether or not things are, in their opinion, soup.

Something Something Soup Something
Developer(s)Stefano Gualeni
Director(s)Stefano Gualeni
Designer(s)Stefano Gualeni
Johnathan Harrington
Programmer(s)Isabelle Kniestedt
Marcello Gomez Maureira
Artist(s)Isabelle Kniestedt
Composer(s)Riccardo Fassone
EngineUnity
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
MacOS
Linux
Web
Release2017
Genre(s)Point and click
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay
An example of one of the more outlandish "soups" in Something Something Soup Something.

The player character is instructed to turn on a teleportation machine. After completing a small mini-game in which the player must line up a small white dot with a line on a monitor, the main part of the game is unlocked. From a machine, bowls of "candidates for soup" are dropped down, and the player has the choice of deciding whether or not it is soup by pressing one button or another. If the player presses the "Soup" button to accept the item as soup, it is teleported away. If the player chooses the "Not Soup" button, it is dumped. After judging several bowls of soup, the player will be met with a screen that shows, based on data from the game, what the qualifiers for what makes something soup are in their opinion.




Plot

In the year 2078, humans have perfected teleportation technology, and are using it to exploit aliens to make them cheap goods. The player takes the role of a worker who is tasked with judging whether or not items aliens make are soup, due to them often not understanding the idea of what defines soup.[3]

Development

During the development of the game, focus groups were organized in several different countries in order for the developers to keep the game as unbiased as possible.[4]

Reception

Something Something Soup Something has inspired much thought into reviewers over "what soup is". Nathan Grayson of Kotaku said that the game presented many heavy philosophical questions.[5] The game was also reviewed by Paula Mejia of Atlas Obscura, stating that the point of the game is that "Soup can be anything, everything, and nothing all at once."[6]

References
  1. "Something Something Soup Something". soup.gua-le-ni.com. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  2. "Something Something Soup Something". soup.gua-le-ni.com. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  3. Antero, Henrique (October 17, 2017). "This Game Wants to Prove That You Don't Know What Soup Is". Vice. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
  4. "Something Something Soup Something". soup.gua-le-ni.com. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  5. Grayson, Nathan. "A Game About Deciding What Is (And Is Not) Soup". Kotaku. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
  6. "The Video Game That Asks You to Ponder the Meaning of Soup". Atlas Obscura. 2017-10-25. Retrieved 2017-11-06.
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