23 Minutes

This game essentially takes a video of someone walking to school for 23 minutes and slows it down to one frame at a time, with each tap of the mouse or keyboard advancing the image and the accompanying text.

The poem felt very realistic. The person it depicts seems like he's going through a crisis in their life and are very negative; he uses strong profanity to describe many things in his life, and talks about his hatred for school and his complicated relationship with his father.

The way that text from passersby that you can overhear pops up is really cool, and I felt like overall we got a great glimpse into this person's mind. I saw others complain about the interaction mechanism and at first I thought, 'no, this is just fine!' but then I saw that after dozens of clicks I had only gotten to the first 10 minutes of the 23 minute interaction I got worn out.

Reading this does make me wonder about students at school. I'm a teacher at a private school (and formerly taught college) and I thrive around crowds (I talked to a psychologist about it once, I grew up in a crowded house and like being on the edges of sociable groups) so being around the kids and interacting with them revitalizes me and summer vacation (like I have now) is way more boring. I've heard that public school is less rewarding due to large class sizes and the lack of private school's filtering mechanisms (like just dropping students who are dangerous or problematic). This game made me wonder what public school teaching would be like.

Overall, cool concept. I agree with others that a pared-down version would be better received (just to avoid the massive clicks). Or (this is a tongue-in-cheek suggestion) making it like clicker games where every 10 clicks you can buy an auto-clicker and then upgrade.