Cai Cai Balão
Year: 2020
System: Windows
Developer: Look Up Games / DADIU
Players: Single
Genres: Arthouse, Parkour
Link: https://dadiu.itch.io/cai-cai-balao
Twenty years ago, the skies of Brazil were completely covered by colorful balloons until 1998 where balloons became illegal; punished with up to 3 years of prison. To this day, balloon crews are persecuted by police.
Cai Cai Balão is a fast paced parkour-lite racing game in which the player completes intense missions in a fictional urban city in Brazil. The player must escape aggressive police officers, snipers, dogs and other obstacles in order to become the FIRST to catch a giant hot air balloon that will earn him respect from the baloeiro families and status as the most notorious balloon hunter.
This is a wild one. So Brazil has an illegal underground culture of releasing balloons and having participants, called baloeiros race after them for the fame and glory of being first to catch a hold of the opening of the balloons. The sport has been highly illegal since 1998, with the result that all participants are hardened gangsters, who also just so happen to make fancy balloon art. People are regularly shot and killed by police doing these races. This game is made by a bunch of students, led by Sissel Dargis, as part of the DADIU education project to try and capture the culture of the Brazilian balloon racers. A mobile version is also under development.
