Comments on: Tiny Soccer Manager Stories (PierreC)

By: Pierrec

Pierrec — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:49:22 +0000

So did you notice that Chloe from TSMS was actually Chloe from Sister’s Little Helper…but younger ?

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:05:30 +0000

Oops, totally valid, that narrator/narration distinction. (Sorry about that mistake!) I think I was tripped up by her stats (presumably) changing when the narrator makes that comment, but hadn’t thought through the fact that even the stats are a representation of the teacher’s mental model, that the reality of how each student plays never really enters the picture.

In any case, thanks for pointing out my error. (And I hadn’t realized this was made by the same person as Sister’s Little Helper, which I also very much enjoyed!)

By: Pierrec

Pierrec — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:50:05 +0000

Thanks for the nice comments, and thanks to Terry for the post, seriously. I thought this game was a total failure because of the quite ininteresting puzzles. Hopefully, the “Skip Puzzle” button was my best idea!

I just want to answer “Nobody” about the girl that sucks at football thing : the “narration” didn’t insist on this, the narrator did. I wanted the teacher character to be a bit clumsy sometimes, he’s human after all. It was on purpose, I’m not sexist

About Louis : I don’t know much more about him than you do. ^^
When his score is getting weird, it’s something like Isa’s score x2 – Fiona’s score. It doesn’t make any sense, just a big mystery.

By: Norgg

Norgg — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:10:44 +0000

Really liked this as a narrative, skipped a bunch of the puzzles though because I wasn’t really finding them so interesting.

I personally really liked that Louis wasn’t explained any more than he was. Zblorb.

By: desadoc

desadoc — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:42:08 +0000

I wish the game*

By: desadoc

desadoc — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:41:26 +0000

She is too busy with Harold anyway. I highly recommend this one too, but I the game revealed more about Louis. He still doesn’t make sense to me.

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:58:41 +0000

I can’t help but get caught on that unfortunate moment where the narration insists that since a character’s turned out to be a girl she obviously isn’t into soccer any more (this despite other girls in the class being quite good at it), but it’s worth overlooking that to see what the game’s doing. The ending is really quite sweet.

By: It is

It is — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:35:18 +0000

Surprisingly excellent.