Comments on: Everywhere at Once (Leon Arnott) http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/06/everywhere-at-once-leon-arnott/ Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:04:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: nobody http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/06/everywhere-at-once-leon-arnott/#comment-63484 Sun, 09 Jun 2013 02:38:05 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7968#comment-63484 This is excellent. It’s surprisingly satisfying to see a Twine game hew so closely to a standard set of text parser verbs, like a streamlined text adventure game with all the fumbling through wide open decision-space stripped away. There are also a ton of clever little touches, not the smallest of which is asking the player up front whether or not they’re a smoker and then carrying that decision forward through the entire text.

Without spoiling it completely, the smartest thing it does is how by the halfway point it sets up a structure in which there’s urgency from moment to moment (almost like a timer) and yet nonetheless complete accommodation for the player to make mistakes and/or take her time, with neither of those two aspects nullifying or contradicting the other. That’s really smart.

]]> By: L http://www.freeindiegam.es/2013/06/everywhere-at-once-leon-arnott/#comment-63255 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:06:40 +0000 http://www.freeindiegam.es/?p=7968#comment-63255 Thanx Noyb.

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