Turo-Turo: Analog Food In The Digital World
A solo journaling game about analog food in a digital future.
You are the owner of the last karinderya in the world, a quiet little restaurant lit by tungsten lights and filled with cheap monoblock chairs and plastic tables. Once, your cornerĀ was filled to the brim with noise and life, with butchers hacking away at pig jowls and vegetable salesmen elbowing each other to show off their greenest ampalaya. Tricycles ambled their way down the street as the tell-tale slapping of tsinelas hit the street, while the children played basketball in jerry-rigged hoops. Now? Now you live in a future of neon colors and pill intakes.
Turo-Turo is a game made in the Philippines about an increasingly digitized, gentrified world. It's a little journaling game about what it means to see the world change and still stay the same. It's about food and how it brings people together, even if society would see them fall apart. It's my love letter to the karinderya across the street where I've spent lunch after lunch with my coworkers.
It's a quiet moment in a hectic day. A place of calm and joy.














