By Alec Meer on October 22nd, 2008 at 9:23 pm.
I played this a couple of weeks ago and meant to post about it then, but my weak mind failed me and so the draft’s been sat there for there days, with just a title and a URL, crying to itself and asking the night sky why I don’t love it anymore. Which means more diligent sites such as Play This Thing have been and written about it in the meantime, so I now look like some sort of desperate Johnny Come Lately. Still, our tardiness in posting doesn’t stop I Wish I were The Moon from being a lovely idea experiment.
It’s an instant-o-distraction, indie capsule gaming that’s centred around a single idea – Passage and Aisle were what it most reminded me of.
So, a single puzzle with multiple solutions, each of which yields a different ending. It’s very simple, and frankly is a bit too stylised-cute to achieve anywhere near the resonance of Aisle, but hunting down every possible ending permutation is an engrossing, sometimes funny and sometimes bittersweet affair. You’ve got a boy, a girl, a boat, the moon and a seagull – combine two or more of these to end the tale. Go, see what you can make.
22/10/2008 at 21:52 Sam says:
I can honestly say that I didn’t expect at least one of those endings to work…
22/10/2008 at 22:11 dartt says:
It’s lovely that the ending I found last (and I expect most people will find last) is the happiest one; it leaves you with a nice fuzzy feeling :)
22/10/2008 at 22:24 Confidence Interval says:
Mostly I find my fun games through RPS and this is that the first one you’ve mentioned that I’ve already played. But I wish more games were like this. I even like the music.
22/10/2008 at 22:35 jalf says:
Bah, I can’t find the last ending… How many endings are there involving the seagull? :/
22/10/2008 at 22:38 jalf says:
oh never mind, turns out I had got all the endings, just not in the same game… :D
22/10/2008 at 22:43 Sam says:
Dartt: the ending I found last involves a certain jealousy, so I’m not sure I got the same one as you?
It seems to require the seagull, but only for part of the process, if that’s the one you mean?
22/10/2008 at 23:33 Gap Gen says:
Yeah, I got them all. I solved the last one without the seagull, instead using the Portal technique.
23/10/2008 at 00:42 Novack says:
You lost the real gem of this argentinian independent game developer:
!!
23/10/2008 at 00:43 Novack says:
No more post edition?
The game is called Storyteller
23/10/2008 at 02:20 ylw says:
Very cute. I found the rather apt ending last and it capped it all off perfectly.
07/05/2009 at 19:05 Cheshire P says:
Its good, but its no don’t shit your pants
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Rete/dont-shit-your-pants