Inspired by events that happened in my hometown.

In 1998 the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Consent Act was passed which allows the state of Vermont to dump radioactive nuclear waste within the Chihuanhaun desert of Texas. From August 6th to August 9th, 1998, 500 people participated in a 76-mile march from Ciudad Juarez/El Paso to Sierra Blanca, after a 14-day hunger strike they stopped the nuclear waste dump from being built, of course, the waste was moved elsewhere within the desert.

Rio Verde

Throughout the game, the player is instructed to collect objects representing a collection of sacred items to eventually combine in the final ceremony at the end of the cleansing. Each of these objects has been placed in the world, with the intention that the area will be cleansed of radiation. The items must be collected to be purified at the end, in order to continue the work of cleansing the land of contamination. There is an egg, medicinal plants, smoke, and a crystal, all materials that are used in the ceremony. However, each object contains mechanical apparatuses that have been adapted in order to apply the science of reducing half-life and neutralizing nuclear decay. The player collects the three eggs leaving behind a blue hue that symbolizes the cleansing of the land, performing a limpia.