Everything Is Going to be OK wins IndieCade’s 2017 Interaction Award

If you’re going through a period of intense anxiety and dread, Nathalie Lawhead wants you to know that Everything Is Going to Be OK. It’s a solo effort from Lawhead, who develops games and interactive art under the moniker Alienmelon. And this past weekend, her game won the Interaction Award at the IndieCade Festival. It’s an interactive art piece that’s a series of miniature experiences filled with adorable creatures who alternate between slinging uplifting slogans and expressing existential ennui.

“It’s a collection of life stories, abstract life stories that are based around depression, trauma, struggle, how society fails people that have to struggle with things like depression,” said Lawhead in an interview with GamesBeat. “It’s framed in a way where it’s cute characters in terrible situations. It’s comical. On the surface it looks like dark comedy, but as you interact with it and go deeper, it starts unraveling those topics and kind of facilitates discussion.”