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Review
This game was entered in 2025 the Text Adventure Literacy Jam.
In it, you wander around a makerspace with tools for sewing, cutting, soldering, etc. Along the way, you discover a broken time machine.
Repairing the machine takes you all over the makerspace and through time, helping you learn what everything does and interacting with the people there.
I got lost pretty early on as there are a ton of red herring items. As time went on there were less and less things I hadn't used yet and so it was simple to deduce what was next.
I really enjoyed learning about the makerspace!
I didn't enjoy the text, which seemed mostly AI generated. I found this odd, as I have enjoyed Richard Pettigrew's terse but witty style in his earlier games. Now, it may not be AI generated, but if it was hand-written, the author was remarkably repetitive and unhelpful. Almost everything is 'a testament to the hours/years/minutes of love/labor/etc. of its users'. Every item 'radiates usefulness' or 'hints at a special meaning' etc. Every room has several nouns mentioned in its description which aren't there at all, which defeats the purpose of a text adventure where the text is the game (it would be like a 3d game that randomly placed guns, powerup icons, medkits and quest icons but all of them were fake and did nothing). I eventually realized I could completely ignore all text except item names, as the AI text never provided any use or interest for me. I feel like I would have had more fun just reading the prompts that were used and imagining it myself.
Also, for some reason my character would randomly burp and fart for some reason throughout the game.
I liked the story progression and the ending. My favorite part, though, was the satisfying crafting process.
