Comments on: Wordplay: Ergon/Logos

By: David

David — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:46:36 +0000

Holy crap the screen looks like its moving after playing that so many times.

By: demonarm

demonarm — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:24:08 +0000

I disagree.

By: fearian

fearian — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:12:01 +0000

I laughed out loud when the game railed on me for being some kind of perverse manipulator, stuck the word DIE in my face and then crashed firefox while blaring distressing, clanging, music.

hehehe

By: FunkyLlama

FunkyLlama — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:16:50 +0000

DAMN YOU DYSLEXIA
DAMN YOU AND ALL YOU STAND FOR

By: Deg

Deg — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:04:20 +0000

I couldn’t stand the music.

By: parm

parm — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:09:11 +0000

I especially liked the part where I died and then Flash decided to rape my CPU and make so I couldn’t close the browser tab without force-quitting the entire browser and killing my in-progress downloads. That part was my favourite.

By: Lambchops

Lambchops — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:39:08 +0000

For me that was the gaming equivalent of modern art . . . I hate modern art!

By: Pijama

Pijama — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:10:01 +0000

@mrrobsa – indeed! For the philosophical tone of it, it doesn’t match… Like listening to Beethoven’s Pastoral while in a destruction derby. xD

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:54:23 +0000

I liked it but I wish the pace was a bit slower to match the ponderous tone. Nothing sank in because I had to keep making arbitrary choices before I’d digested the previous sentence. Still, props for creating something different.

By: Pijama

Pijama — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:46:49 +0000

@Jae Armstrong – got the same. Pretty nice.

HOWEVAH

Even if it is a “game object” and thus may be allowed to be excused from concepts such as gameplay (:p), implementation does feel a tad flawed, if not outright bad. Can’t explain precisely why, but has to do with the combination of unresponsiveness and difficulty of choosing the paths (though that can be an analogy for real life as well, but I would have to read the “Coder’s Manifesto” or something to see his intent) together with the sheer pace of the damn thing.

Or maybe my artsy-game tolerance is a bit low in this morning.

Anyway – I liked it. It reminded me of Planescape and it’s sheer literary power instead of today’s fancyness. :)

By: soylent robot

soylent robot — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:40:12 +0000

I would have enjoyed it more if it didn’t break my internets when I hit a big DIE.

By: MartinE

MartinE — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:35:24 +0000

This is crap.

Did nothing at all for me and as other have pointed out 50% of the times it took the exact opposite route of the one that I wanted.