Comments on: Aptly-Titled: Restraining Order

By: Matzerath

Matzerath — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:22:57 +0000

That means we’re ever closer to the all-powerful eighties movie home computer!
Hack into Norad? Sure!
Make a virtual woman? No sweat!
Suck you into its fantastical game-world? Piece ‘o cake!

By: gladlad

gladlad — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:04:10 +0000

Is it just me, or is the whole indie scene beginning to produce games like the fake ones movies who feature “gaming” characters describe in the script? Remember on Wayne’s World when the old business dude is describing the game Zantar, in which “Zantar is a gelatinous cube that eats warriors in a village. If you eat a chieftain, you go up a level.” All those years ago, I remember thinking “Whatever! That’s the fakest sounding game I’ve ever heard of!” Enter “Restraining Order”. I think it was the reference to the three colors of police that you have to avoid in specific ways. That crazy of a premise with that infantile of a gameplay scheme = fake movie game. My point? The world is a better place now that fake movie games can be reality. And we don’t have to pump any quarters into most of ‘em! Hurrah!

By: Juicy McNugget

Juicy McNugget — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:46:20 +0000

Kids. This is what you always knew was under your bed waiting to get you.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

By: Lars Westergren

Lars Westergren — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:16:00 +0000

Very well said Wulf. If you polish it up a bit that’s a pretty decent article or blog post there (not just a comment at someone elses blog).
:)

By: Polysynchronicity

Polysynchronicity — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:44:06 +0000

Ever play the indie game “Iji”? For all its mediocre writing and graphics, it did one thing that I’ve never encountered elsewhere: you can play through as some kind of ultraviolent madwoman, killing hundreds and starting to lose it by the end of the game; a complete pacifist who harms nobody at the cost of much-increased difficulty; or some kind of middle ground, where you are cast neither as a saint nor a murderer.

By: AngryInternetman

AngryInternetman — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:22:00 +0000

What the hell did I just play.
I did play a game, right?
Yes I did. I hope so.

By: drygear

drygear — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:19:29 +0000

What it reminds me of the most is the La La Land games, even with a similar use of music.

By: mpk

mpk — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:18:41 +0000

@ Wulf

/me give standing ovation.

Dude, you had me at hello. We’re getting to the point now where games have went from comically inept visualisations of violence (the 8-bit days, say) to comic book violence (the 16-bit era*) to comically pornographic violence (I’m thinking Soldier of Fortune 2 here) to plain pornographically violent games.

It’s all noise, sound and fury, signifying nothing. Literally, tales told by idiots, because we stare at the screens with mouths open, drooling and jabbing buttons (or, indeed, keys) and not thinking about what we are actually doing, or what the things we are doing actually signify.

Lets take back the moral highground

*Yes, I know, I’m showing my console roots. Fuck you, I don’t have a TV anymore or I’d be browsing Rock, Paper, Joypad. ON MY XSTATION.

By: Jim McGinley

Jim McGinley — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:00:24 +0000

@Shadrach -
Music_Finished.ogg is actually “Taxi for Two” by Mani from the album “New Demoes”
Hear it here:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/181661
Great song. It took me awhile to find it.

@Everyone -
All the music is thanks to other people and creative commons.
It took me a lonnnnng time to find music that fit the game, but that’s all I did.
A complete list of songs from the game,
including links to where you can hear/download them legally,
is in the readme.txt. The artists would love that!
I’m creating a soundtrack page for my site as we speak.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:16:07 +0000

This game is… awesome. Insane, crazy, somewhat twisted. But awesome.

By: Shadrach

Shadrach — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:25:24 +0000

Music_Finished.ogg – such a great little song, listened a lot these last day! Wonder if its the same guy who made the game? Also these guys are great, Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJoope65XWI

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:25:17 +0000

Wulf’s post is “of the year” material, for sure!

The Hit-Self-Destruct on GTA IV is germane here for sure? http://www.hitselfdestruct.com/2009/03/fall.html