The project combines Video blogging, interactive maps, fictional newscasts, live action footage, and animation to immerse the player in the narrative, an example of Transmedia storytelling.
The project requires the player to access and assess additional information and make decisions about the world's energy production at both a national and global scale.
Collapsus was developed by Submarine Channel, with the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, who produced the associated Energy Transition documentary the project is based on.
Collapsus is directed by Tommy Pallotta, who produced A Scanner Darkly (film) and Waking Life.
[2] Collapsus blends live action and the rotoscoping animation technique, co-developed by Pallotta, and used in Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly (film).