Ratings and Reviews by Hanon Ondricek

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My Town, by Anastasia Salter
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Good Concept!, March 26, 2014
by Hanon Ondricek (United States)

This game purports to simulate a PC with Alzheimer's disease in a city that caters to Alzheimer's patients. I thought this was a cool concept. I played through pretty quickly. The text is nicely styled to avoid the annoying tiny print white on black. It appears there are multiple paths, and the Twine does that "switch word when you click" thing. Due to the concept, though, I wasn't so much in control as I would have liked or needed to be given the status of the PCs health. Worth a play.

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1 AM, by Soundboy
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Nicely-written, not very long., March 26, 2014
by Hanon Ondricek (United States)

This game was written for a Ludum Dare where the theme was 10 seconds. The author does an interesting thing in letting you play one second out of a relationship in consecutive different time periods, which is a pretty cool idea. 1 AM on your first move might zip you to 1 AM a year later for your next. It's like a more built-out version of Aisle where you get a follow-up to your one move.

While this is a really cool concept in theory, this game only glances the surface of making good use of the idea. I played a couple of times, and even with such a small work I felt railroaded. This could be a prototype for a longer game. I almost wish this were in a parser language like Inform so the decision of what to do could be more open. Since the concept would limit you to ten moves, I'd like to see the resolutions actually seem to make some difference like some of the wildly divergent denouement seen in Aisle. Or even Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle if it had a similar sense of random chaos.

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Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A Veeder Episode, March 21, 2014
by Hanon Ondricek (United States)

This is a sparsely-implemented but well-written piece in Playfic. It feels like an example game, but contains Veeder's usual wit and noodles around with the PCs identity and inventory in a way that could be interestingly fleshed out in a longer piece. Any more description would spoil. Worth a look if you have ten minutes.

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20 Strokes, by PaperBlurt
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Alice Falling, by Matthias Conrady
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
I would read this at full length., March 13, 2014*
by Hanon Ondricek (United States)

I'm a Wonderland nerd, so I enjoyed this immensely. I would love to see the entire text done with some creative styling similar to what this falling sequence does.

* This review was last edited on March 14, 2014
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Target: Cynthia - Chapter 1, by Cynthia Dawn
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Looking forward to Chapter 2, March 6, 2014*
by Hanon Ondricek (United States)

This is an on-rails Twine story with a couple of choices and a chance of dying. Normally a linear story where you do little but click for the next part of the story is a bore, but the writing is sure and imaginative, hinting at a mind-bogglingly interesting meta concept. Hey, a waterside is linear, and that doesn't make it any less entertaining. I hope the author continues this!

* This review was last edited on March 7, 2014
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Quit Your Job Simulator 2014, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel)
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
I don't think I got the correct ending., March 3, 2014
by Hanon Ondricek (United States)

This game is your basic FML office game with some horror thrown in. I played once. (Spoiler - click to show)Wandered around a bit, then died. Did the coffee poison me?

Very well written. I liked where this might have been going, but I think I'm happy with the (Spoiler - click to show)"Failed to quit my Job" resolution to my quest!

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Digital Witnesses, by rosencrantz
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A short story of future escape, February 24, 2014
by Hanon Ondricek (United States)

This was done as a challenge to create a story with 23 passages in Twine. The writing is clear, evocative, and sure.

Other than the brief length, the limitations seem to pose no problem for the author, although I did find myself looping to the same passages several times. This doesn't hurt, because there are extra links to investigate each time.

23 screens doesn't seem like much, but the author intelligently structures this so it doesn't feel like a small story. Very well done.

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My Desk, by Matthias Conrady
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A really neat voyeuristic exploration., February 6, 2014*
by Hanon Ondricek (United States)

It's not so voyeuristic, actually, as the author has invited you to snoop around his real desk and narrates what each item is. It's a good example of how Twine might be used to create an actual graphic point and click sort of adventure game.

* This review was last edited on February 7, 2014
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Outbreak Day 1 : The Silent Outbreak, by Andre Berthiaume
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
I obtained an ending in six screens., February 5, 2014
by Hanon Ondricek (United States)

It took barely five minutes. You may wish to wait for more of this to be released before trying it, especially since the game wants you to maintain a browser cookie to remember your progress.

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