The developer of April’s surprise hit game Content Warning now wants to take players’ footage and hide it in the game for other players to find. Landfall Games is calling it the Lost Footage Project.
The developer announced the new initiative on X, inviting players to participate in the project by sending in their Content Warning footage. The description in the participation form reads,
“We want to add ‘lost’ footage into Content Warning for other players to find in the game. Everyone is welcome to send us their in-game camera footage via this form and we’ll choose our favourites to hide in the game.”
Players are required to upload the footage they wish to submit on social media and then share the link with Landfall. YouTube, Tiktok, X, and Instagram submissions are accepted, and the developer mentioned that viral videos will be more likely to get selected for the project.
Content Warning players wanting to participate in the Lost Footage Project will also need to upload the saved video during submission. The form further mentions that only the unedited in-game camera footage will be accepted for this project.
The final requirement for participation is a waiver that players will need to sign. It’ll allow the developer to legally use the submitted videos. The form also collects the player’s full name, address, phone number, national identification number, phone number, city, postal code, and email address.
While that sounds like a lot of personal information going to a video game creator, Landfall claims the data will be used for “legitimizing the waivers” and will not be shared outside of the company.
In the first few days after launch, Content Warning got over 200,000 concurrent players on steam. The player base has since been declining consistently, and the game currently has a 24-hour peak of less than 28,000 players as per SteamDB data. The new project looks to be a way of reigniting excitement around the viral game.
