By Jim Rossignol on October 17th, 2012 at 11:30 am.
Memory of a Broken Dimension is a strange thing. It’s an abstract and deeply beautiful exploration game, with a text adventure/hacking sort of thing at the start. That’s here. Right now I can’t tell if that’s just the text part, or whether you can get to the exploration part. It seems that you can’t. There’s a video of the full thing action below, as well as the presentation where it was revealed at the Tokyo game show. It’s quite the glitchy nightmare. Take a look!
17/10/2012 at 11:40 dee says:
*an
17/10/2012 at 11:51 Henke says:
Memory Of An Broken Dimension?
That can’t be right.
17/10/2012 at 11:56 dee says:
Well, They fixed it, so now you’ll never know what I meant.
Yes , They. It is a conspiracy.
17/10/2012 at 11:42 mikmanner says:
This looks awesome but I’ve no idea what to do, can’t get past the first screen
17/10/2012 at 11:53 yhancik says:
DIR gives you the list of available “exe” that are
- REMOTE
- VOIDSCAN
- S-DIVER
I tried them all in that order and.. .. stuff happened, but only in console, not visuals as in the video…
17/10/2012 at 12:01 Caiman says:
Yes it has just enough DOS commands for me to figure out basic stuff, but not enough to actually do what I want. When VOIDSCAN creates all those SECTORx.DAT files I want to EDIT or TYPE them! S-DIVER seems to delete them all and put you back at the start. Hard to tell if other files are being created because the interface glitches constantly mutate the text. I like it, but I’m stuck.
17/10/2012 at 12:03 yhancik says:
I wonder if the current online version isn’t just a teaser or something…
17/10/2012 at 12:07 Caiman says:
Jim seems to think so, but I don’t know if he’s much smarter than us and has gotten deeper into the system. Wait, what am I saying?
17/10/2012 at 12:07 TwoDaemon says:
Mmm, same problems here. I’ve been trying to see if there’s anything to the fact that it lists “1 DIR[S]” in the DIR output, given that to my knowledge if there’s no directories present DOS should either say there’s two (for . and ..) or none (if you’re in the root of a drive). I can’t find any directories, although CD is a valid command which doesn’t seem to do much.
17/10/2012 at 12:15 Caiman says:
I, er, cheated and watched the video presentation. The graphical / first person section of the game is activated by those executables, but they’re not working in the free version. Not sure if that’s intentional, because otherwise it’s not much of a teaser! Well ok, I am intrigued, so perhaps it succeeded, but I’d have liked to explore the sector data briefly.
17/10/2012 at 12:18 TwoDaemon says:
Ah, I see. Hm. I feel oddly cheated, despite the whole “free teaser” thing. Oh well. Thanks for stopping me from musing on it all afternoon, anyway!
17/10/2012 at 12:27 WMain00 says:
Oh. Bleh.
Where can I buy it then? Or is it not out yet?
Seems thoroughly daft to release a demo that effectively does nothing.
17/10/2012 at 13:33 Sc0r says:
Been messing around a little.
commands that do anything are:
dir
VOIDSCAN
REMOTE
S-DIVER
help
cd
cd..
exit
Voidscan only seems to work, if you executed remote before.
Files are
Voidscan.exe
Remote.exe
S-Diver.exe
interact.cfg
client.id
and after executing remote&voidscan you’ll get:
sector01 to 09.dat and sectorA to F.dat
17/10/2012 at 15:40 diehappy says:
login
also works but no idea what the user name is, let alone the possible password
17/10/2012 at 19:11 XRA says:
sorry guys, that is just the console from when I was doing some network tests and is placeholder for now! I really appreciate all the interest in the game, I want to update the site and get some new stuff up there soon.
17/10/2012 at 11:42 yandexx says:
The music is brilliant. As well as the visuals. Do want!
Edit: ooh, it is available just like that.
17/10/2012 at 11:51 Charles de Goal says:
Grr when will this Unity Web Player thing be finally be ported to Linux?
17/10/2012 at 12:09 BillyIII says:
As soon as linux becomes a proper desktop os.
17/10/2012 at 15:30 Charles de Goal says:
Not sure what you’re talking about, it works fine here as a desktop OS.
17/10/2012 at 14:27 Petethegoat says:
Dunno about the web player, but Unity 4 is supposed to be able to export to Linux.
17/10/2012 at 11:54 yhancik says:
It reminds me a bit of what Rosa Menkman did in Unity http://www.triangulationblog.com/2012/09/videoscape-compress-process-by-rosa.html
17/10/2012 at 12:58 Ross Angus says:
Kill it. Kill it with fire (the Baby/Spider, not Rosa Menkman, who I’m sure is lovely).
17/10/2012 at 16:54 yhancik says:
She is!
But obligatory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AB7IDw3PNI
17/10/2012 at 12:47 SooSiaal says:
Uhm, I think the version number can give you a hint on why it doesn’t do much at the moment.
17/10/2012 at 13:44 VileJester says:
The music reminded me a little bit of the old Muse albums, which is good.
17/10/2012 at 15:20 Kein says:
2deep4me
Besides, Unity Player… nah.
17/10/2012 at 19:19 SuperNashwanPower says:
Looks like when i used to record 7th generation porns on my family Betamax
17/10/2012 at 21:28 Kefren says:
The first trailer reminds me of Mondo Medicals / Agency (Cactus).
17/10/2012 at 21:51 hamburger_cheesedoodle says:
Looks beautiful. Hope to see more sooner instead of later.
17/10/2012 at 22:33 Synesthesia says:
Beautiful! When will it be done?
17/10/2012 at 23:10 Saldek says:
That looks absolutely fantastic! Love the idea of objects forming when you look at their fragments from the right perspective.
18/10/2012 at 06:53 hello_mr.Trout says:
aesthetic exploration in incredible broken down hacking weird noir world? i’m sold!
18/10/2012 at 13:03 cunningmunki says:
Would be ace if the Black Mesa guys do Xen in a similar fashion.
22/10/2012 at 19:07 Qofi (Hero(in(e))). says:
Is that a Matrix reference I spot?
So I went ahead and made a ‘let’s play’ of this, and the game creator actually made a comment on the video confirming that there’s no way to access the actual ‘gameplay’ parts of the game yet.