Ratings and Reviews by Cerfeuil
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I found this one hilarious, in an offbeat kind of way. You play as a computer who can only talk by imitating other people's vocabulary, sort of like that nymph Echo from the Greek myths. Except you're a computer. So not that much like a nymph. Anyway, you explore Turing City, where apparently Turing tests are a major part of the economy because there's entire stadiums dedicated to them, with the goal of beating your opponents to become the TURING CHAMPION.
Or you could just say "COMPUTER" all the time and purposefully fail all the tests. If you feel like it.
It's a funny commentary on the state of 2010s era AI text generation. You're basically a Markov chain and all your dialogue is incoherent. The story itself does a good job of being absurd enough to be entertaining while still making sense. Short and interesting. I liked it.
Playtime: around 15 minutes
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Here's an excerpt, from TURING TEST VS DOG ENTHUSIAST:
“A dog is a special type of land mammal. I am in love with facts like that, about dog,” says DOG ENTHUSIAST sagely.
What is the last thing you will say to convince the JUDGE that you know about dogs?
> your adult dog should eventually be a puppy
> puppy and child can snuggle together and then eventually be able to learn about a command
> the mixture is smooth and elastic and will be found in the center of a double roastingpan
> COMPUTER
It gets even better later on when you start to combine vocabulary, and end up with sentences like "when you are ready to introduce your puppy to the boilingpoint pour a thin layer of crumbs into the back of his teeth".
This is the kind of Twine game I expect to find on Itch. It's more interactive short story than game, and there are no choices to be made. You just click through the passages. The story features a vaguely queer protagonist in a dying town, with allusions to homophobia and other abuses that are, for the most part, only described obliquely. In short, it fits with the genre.
But the writing is decent, and the presentation is beyond stunning. Every passage is accompanied by excellent pixel art, and the glitchy passage-to-passage transition looks fantastic. The music is good too, haunting ambient chords that set the mood well.
Playtime: about 10 minutes. The author's site is down, so you'll have to play the game on Itch.
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