News for Transparent

Mathbrush's Bisquixe browser interpreter now enables sound when playing TRANSPARENT online or in the browser.

On original release in 2014 in IFComp, Transparent contained an extensive sound and music system which was inaccessible to many players initially. Now the full multimedia set is enabled in the browser and is an easy way to experience the game as originally intended, and is a good demo of what the Bisquixe interpreter is capable of.

Play or download at itch.io: https://pyramidif.itch.io/transparent

Mathbrush's announcement and tech about how it was done: https://intfiction.org/t/ifcomp-2014-game-transparent-remastered-with-bisquixe/66277

Itch.io dev-log: https://pyramidif.itch.io/transparent/devlog/652516/transparent-now-with-sound-in-online-browser-play

Transparent placed 11th in the 2014 IFComp, and casts the player as a photographer hired to take pictures in an historic residence which is being filmed for a ghost-hunting reality show.

The full game contains about 8 megabytes of sound files.

TransparentM is the game with all audio stripped out, greatly reducing the file size down to to 2.3 meg, which makes the game more feasible to store on a mobile device for play, or if no sound is desired. Works in Frotz on iOS. Unfortunately I was unable to compile down to ZCode, so I left the small number of images in the game.

Minor update, fixes some vault door weirdness and other text corrections.

The much-improved post IFComp 2014 release of TRANSPARENT is available now from the IFArchive.

Transparent placed 11th in the Comp, and this version includes many fixes and player experience upgrades. Additional content and some new sounds have also been incorporated.

Transparent placed 11th overall in the 2014 IFComp and was praised for its creepy atmosphere which is heightened in large part by radio drama-like sound effects when played in a multimedia interpreter.

The latest release (version 7) includes many bug fixes and ease-of-play upgrades based on excellent feedback received during the Comp and an extended period of testing after. New content has been incorporated, the existing text has been polished, there are new sound effects, and additional clues to the mystery can be sought out.