Sometimes, a game is wrapped around such an inspiring, clever, and beautiful idea that you can't help but immediately fall in love with it. Such is the case with Haven by The Game Bakers which follows the plight of two lovers who, as the game describes itself, "gave up everything and escaped to a lost planet to be together." The whole idea of the star-crossed lovers is not new and is of course grounded in reality. In the world we live in, people have been and many still are forbidden to fall in love on the basis of political affiliation, social status, skin color, religion, and sex. The game embraces "love, rebellion, and freedom" as everyone should be by now. But human evolution on this matter has been slow, thanks to old traditions - most notably religion since it can't be questioned - and perhaps, tragically, this will never change because humans are forever cursed to be this way. The title of the game is perfect: Haven. It's common where we are often told that we ought to secure the rewards of the afterlife, the so-called "heaven". But when the values represented to achieve that don't match our own, it's no longer our truth. It's always interesting to me that people are quick to justify their life choices for something that's not based in our reality. Singer Belinda Carlisle seemed to get the message in the late 80's with her hit Heaven Is a Place on Earth but sadly, that didn't become the turning point for humanity. And she got one thing wrong: Heaven just doesn't exist anywhere, period. Haven however, does because it's a completely realistic concept.
Do you smile when you see two people kissing or do you start judging them?
