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About the Story"[A] surprising iPhone and Apple Watch bestseller is pushing the boundaries of fiction" - boingboing.net Game Details
Language: English, Chinese (en, zh-cmn-Hans)
Current Version: Unknown License: Commercial Forgiveness Rating: Cruel IFID: Unknown TUID: zor1al2my922f0w1 |
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling
Lifeline is an iOS and Android mobile game in which you are fielding a distress call from someone named Taylor (gender never actually specified -- I've seen some reviews refer to Taylor as male, but I pictured a woman). Taylor was the youngest, most naive crew member aboard a space ship that has crashed on a distant moon. They have no previous space experience and only the most rudimentary safety training. For some reason you are the only person in communication range, so they need you to prompt them through a series of survival decisions.
The story plays out in roughly SMS-sized messages from Taylor, which sometimes come in rapid succession and sometimes only after a substantial real-time delay. These exchanges are backed by atmospheric music, and though the actual content is quite bare-bones and without visuals, the presentation is glossy and solid.
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50 Years of Text Games, by Aaron A. Reed
The games success was a combination of great timing and great execution: a clever idea, some snappy writing, and a launch on a new platform where few other apps were yet available. Its the first game Ive loaded on my Watch that is not only fun to play, said TIME Magazine, but fun to play specifically on a wearable. Though distant from the innovations in technology or design happening in other commercial text games, Lifeline demonstrated the genres appeal even with the most straightforward of foundations.
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