Cygnet Committee

Intfiction.org Thread (Josh Grams)
Worth checking out if you like audio games with your IF
I’ve played about an hour of Cygnet Committee. This is a spy/action-movie kind of plot. You’re sneaking into a military/research complex to supposedly shut down an AI (we’ll see if that’s how it actually turns out).

Whenever you go to do something, there are four audio “tracks” on the screen; you have to click on the one that’s different to progress.

My biggest beef is that you usually have to choose the right track 3-7 times to advance and there’s NO PROGRESS MARKER. Oh, I should mention that I’ve already run into not one but two fairly tight timed sequences.

But otherwise this is a satisfyingly fun and weird sci-fi secret-agent game so far.
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An Exercise for the Reader
Joan of Arc is a fascinating figure. She’s been many things: heretic, martyr, saint, hero, military leader, feminist icon, nationalist symbol. Cygnet Committee invites us to explore many of these different aspects of Joan, especially the ways in which she’s been appropriated—even exploited—by others.

At different times during Cygnet Committee Joan comes across as an enigma, a victim, a threat, a marketable brand name, and as insane. Who was she, really? Who is she? Cygnet Committee never answers that question, instead preferring to portray Joan in all of her complexity.
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