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About the StoryA game that simulates a week in life, based on the author's personal experiences. Game Details
Language: English (en)
Current Version: 3 License: Freeware Development System: Inform 6 Baf's Guide ID: 24 IFID: ZCODE-3-980215-12F3 TUID: ldv3pevm4rqsxnc6 |
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Baf's Guide
The author vents his frustrations with his life. Brief, highly abstract, and with an unusually large time scale - a time-lapse snapshot, if you will. Not much to it gamewise - in a sense, it consists entirely of guess-the-verb puzzles. But it's always interesting to see something different being done with the medium.
-- Carl Muckenhoupt
SynTax
There are no instructions that I could find on how to interact with the game. This is not a traditional game in any sense. I still don't know what I am supposed to do. I'm sure there is a very clever adventure in there, but personally I didn't like it, but then I always prefer a good traditional treasure hunt in its many different formats.
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Makes you think, January 12, 2014Honestly spoken, I liked the concept, although the game exclusively presents guess-the-verb puzzles. The description of the location (which is not a concrete place but an abstract concept) contains several objects, and the player has to find a way to deal with them. Some of these actions seemed arbitrary to me, so I really relied on guessing and sometimes was surprised when I got it right.
The author states in an afterword that he is aware of the aforementioned disadvantages. I think I understand the meaning of this game for the author, and I pay respect to it. In the end I did pass the week, so the game can be finished. The writing is okay. The implementations are not perfect, but sufficient, and I did not find obvious bugs.
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The following polls include votes for A Week in the Life:Games that show everyday life by Sam Jackson
I'm looking for preferably short games that focus on part of someone's life in our world and preferably our time. I would like games with an emotional focus.
Slice of Life Games by BlitzWithGuns
I'm interested in some slice of life games which are able to make you feel nostalgic and warm inside, something like 'Photopia'!
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