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![]() A tiny, unusual little wordplay game, scarcely IF. World-model is irrelevant, and the parser only accepts one type of command. You are given words, and have to supply a rhyme for each word. Your score is how many acceptable rhymes you supply within 60 seconds. The framing is that this is a psychotherapy exercise; you're being asked whether you feel emotional state X, and you respond with, 'no, I'm feeling Y'. Y does not always have to be an emotion, since the game recognises a wide range of rhyming words, some of which aren't even adjectives. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
Comments on this reviewPrevious | << 1 >> | Next Emily Short, April 11, 2012 - Reply I didn't have nearly such a visceral reaction to it. Mostly I thought that it was kind of an interesting trick to invite the player to come up with rhymes and think about what they might even mean. (Spoiler - click to show)CLEVER -> LEVER: what would it mean to feel like a lever? Do I want to commit to that or should I sit here thinking about whether there's something else that might rhyme and make more sense? Maybe I do feel like a lever in some metaphorical respect.... Then again, there were some points where I felt something that could have been accepted as a weak or partial rhyme, or a rhyme in one particular dialect pronunciation, didn't quite work; which took away a bit from the freewheeling nature of the exercise. Overall, though, I see it as an interesting minor work in the category of "IF that asks the player to pay attention to the prose manifestation as well as/instead of the world model". matt w (Matt Weiner), April 14, 2012 - Reply Hm, I think I pronounce lever to rhyme with cleaver. Sam Kabo Ashwell, April 11, 2012 - Reply I'm somewhat exaggerating the effect in order to explain it; this was more a faint feeling of discomfort than a visceral reaction, and I had to sit and think about why it felt uncomfortable. Part of it, perhaps, is that I've spent a lot of time around therapists, some of whom have used games as a tool; so I may be more than usually sensitive to things that tamper with the trust relation that underlies those. The framing is more potentially potent than the author really intended, I suspect. |