Do you love stories? Well we figured as much. It’s time for us to introduce to a bit more of Jengo’s lore and history.

Jengo takes place - amongst other locations - in a strange, abandoned land at the verge of the Pixelverse: Old Meta.

What’s Old Meta?

Old Meta is what it is : the Old Meta. That is where your old game characters go to die when you delete your savegames, shelve your cd or – even worse - trade it at Game Flop ™ in exchange for the newest instalment of Act of War : Call of Honor.

Maybe you remember that awesome dual-wielding ranger you had great plans and customization ideas for before you decided to re-spec him into a more respectable min-maxed Paladin? No. Of course you don’t : but Old Meta ? Old Meta does. All of the discarded profiles, wacky custom characters and fanart tributes will find a home in Old Meta…

Old Meta is the memory, the endless recollection of all the things you did in a game, of what everyone did in a game – in all games! – all the shameful deaths, the awkward moments you struggled against a boss and went to check NeoGameQAF for an exploit to cheat your way out of your predicament.

Old Meta presses F to pay respects to the gaming culture when you, filthy consumer, go from game to game like a swarm of locusts ravaging countryside fields. It is the most remote corner of the gaming culture – but at the same time, its most holy place. (Well, if you don’t mind the ruined trailers in the background, that is.)

You got it. From cruddy , insignificant platformer mascots who couldn’t have sold more than two plushies in their short lifetime, to tough and badass covershooting musclebros, all video game characters end up there, somehow… whether they survive is… another matter.

And you, dear player, will hopefully soon discover it.

• Robot Wizard