100,000 Years

by Pierre Chevalier

2013
Twine

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- Sobol (Russia), July 3, 2019

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Tiny existential text toy., July 3, 2019
by Wade Clarke (Sydney, Australia)
Related reviews: IFComp 2013, Twine, science fiction

(I wrote the original version of this review in my blog upon this game's initial 2013 IFComp release.)

100,000 years is a sci-fi Twine piece about galactic-sized spans of time. It is easily worth any comp-goer's time to try as it is very short. I almost said "ironically very short," but that would have been silly as the smallness/largeness thing is obviously a feature.

The goings-on in a chunk of the universe are described in a few lines of verse. Clicking the left arrow takes you 100,000 years into the past while the right arrow takes you the same distance into the future. Changes over that time period are then described, but the arrows remain, ready to move you forward or backward again. The result is a tiny existential text toy. What you discover if you go far enough in either direction is equally likely to make you feel more a part of the universe or just less significant. The achievement of 100,000 years is that it can touch on those feelings quickly and with such a simple device, though the whole piece is definitely short-lived.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Very short (less than one minute), but interesting take on history and future, December 30, 2015*

This game is a one-trick pony. At first, I thought it would be a random text generator like Begscape. However, it turned out to be much simpler.

Once I thought it through, I enjoyed it. Not much else to say.

* This review was last edited on February 3, 2016
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- Doug Orleans (Somerville, MA, USA), October 2, 2015

- Alexander (Scotland), January 21, 2014

- streever (America), December 5, 2013

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Barely a game, December 5, 2013

I give this two stars because the writing is pretty good, in its self-imposed succinctness, and the story ties together well. But the premise is hardly original, and this isn't even a CYOA: there are no choices.

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- Ryan Veeder (Australia), December 4, 2013 (last edited on December 5, 2013)

- Egas, November 17, 2013

- Jason Lautzenheiser (Navarre, Ohio), November 16, 2013 (last edited on November 17, 2013)

- E.K., November 16, 2013 (last edited on November 17, 2013)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, November 16, 2013
by Molly (USA)

There is not a whole lot to 100,000 Years. It is basically a hypertext adaption of the hoary old SF premise suggested by the title. No, not that one, the other one, with the (Spoiler - click to show)space aliens and (Spoiler - click to show)repeating timelines and junk. It's competently implemented within its very small limits, but unfortunately it shares a problem with lazy SF in that it barely uses its premise, either as a metaphor to tell us something about ourselves or just to entertain. Even a bit of randomness in the text might make 100,000 Years a bit more meaty. Still, it's probably worth a look. Just don't expect too much.

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- Sdn (UK), November 16, 2013

- Sam Kabo Ashwell (Seattle), November 16, 2013

- Floating Info, November 16, 2013

- Karl Ove Hufthammer (Bergen, Norway), November 16, 2013

- Laura Michet (Los Angeles), November 15, 2013

- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), November 7, 2013 (last edited on November 8, 2013)

- Peloquin, November 1, 2013

- smurfas666 (Klaipeda, Lithuania), October 30, 2013

- N.C. Hunter Hayden, October 29, 2013 (last edited on October 30, 2013)


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