Reviews by MathBrush

This short game, written for the Neo Twiny Jam in 500 words or less, has you play as a cute rat and to live out your days. You can eat, drink, play, etc.

There's not a ton of variation, so I was inclined to give it 3 stars, but it's sweet, especially the tribute in the credits, and in a way the way it just keeps going on (Spoiler - click to show)could be thought of as a way for Puck to always live on.

This game was written in 500 words or less for the Neo Twiny Jam competition.

It takes the limited word concept of the competition and works it into the game. You have died, but your soul only has 400 words left to say before they perish.

Unfortunately, Charon is a bit of a chatterbox, and you've got to cross the river.

This game was pretty entertaining. I only found 2/3 endings, though, although I tried a lot of stuff to find the third.

This game was written for the Neo Twiny Jam in 500 words or less.

It uses a mild amount of branching and a few other text techniques to tell the story of an Australian who immigrated from Jakarta. While the rest of the family is preoccupied with political unrest, the protagonist is interested in love.

While not long, it is well written and presents some interesting facets of life that I wasn't previously aware of, and it looks good while doing it.

This game was written for the Neo Twiny Jam in 500 words or less.

It has some excellent tech behind it with creepy music and an SMS-style interface.

It's a branching game with storylines that diverge wildly, each ending in a different reality. I played about 3 times.

I would have played more but the beginning is agonizing slow, seemingly in pursuits of mimesis. For a game meant to be replayed, an option to read at leisure may have been better. Each individual story I read was well-written, though.

This game, written for the Neo Twiny Jam in 500 words or less, takes a twist on multiple meanings of the word 'correspondence'.

Rather than using the word limit to ration small paragraphs into multiple branches, it unloads it all in one linear story.

There's a nice twist halfway through, which is executed well. But a lot of the phrasing in the letter felt very vague to me. I realize that they may have helped the twist, but I'm not sure. Overall had some strong moments.

This game was written for the Neo Twiny Jam in 500 words or less.

It has two segments. The first is a slow, timed text description of being at a party and leaving. It focuses on visceral details rather than overall storyline.

The second is a series of elevator stops, each presenting the reader with an image (which sometimes requires you to zoom out; I think enabling scrollbars on itch would fix that). You can choose to enter that level, or not.

I replayed twice, but no more, as the timed text was really very slow and all had to be repeated each time. But the atmosphere was effective and moody, which was nice.

This is a Neo Twiny Jam game written in 500 words or less.

This is a kind of a gauntlet-style game, where a wrong choice can end the game in an instant.

The concept is intriguing: negotiating with an invading force much stronger than yours, with your only options being death or appeasement.

But it's slight obnoxious to play, as it simultaneously types out text a little bit slowly and also urges you to click as fast as you can. Kind of like having an escort quest in a game where their speed doesn't match yours and you constantly have to go in spurts to keep up.

This game was written for the Neo Twiny Jam in 500 words or less.

I like Vampire stories in general (original Dracula, Twilight series, VtM and its associated Choicescript Games, Interview with a Vampire when I was a kid). This game plays on the relationship between a vampire and her Creator, and their back and forth pain.

It was well written in general, but there was so much left unsaid. A lot of the descriptions are vague generalities that hit the right notes but might (for my personal taste, maybe not same as author) benefit from having a bit more specificity from time to time. I feel like this author must be good at writing dreams.

This is a Neo Twiny Jam Game, written in 500 words or less.

This game has a nice setup. You have a variety of alien ships you can target, each with a varying amount of health and damage. Attacking them nets you scrap, with which you can buy upgrades.

It's a cool idea and has some fun backstory, and looks like you can unlock more as you go on. But I will not see those, because it is too hard for me, even on easy mode.

For me, the issue is that if you're hit even once by the enemy, the damage they do is almost exactly equal to what you can heal with the rewards. That means at best you get no upgrades and exist in stasis, and at worst you slowly get damaged each turn. Someone suggested doing easy mode and buying a bunch of drones, but those got vaporized in one hit when I tried going up against a harvester.

So if it's a 'there is no hope' simulator, it works well, although some kind of 'give up' ending would be nice. But as a battle simulator, for me it is not one I can imagine trying more at.

This poem was written in 500 words or less for the Neo Twiny Jam.

It's written with a neat interactive structure with little triangle to expand or shrink the text, all nested within each other. Inside the nesting are some other types of links that manipulate the text in various ways.

The poem is a nostalgic one, talking about memories with a friend that have a different shade of emotion looking back.

Overall, it's well executed.