Goncharov

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Goncharov
by Ju / smwhr profile

2023

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(based on 2 ratings)
2 reviews

About the Story

This was a never submitted entry for the Goncharov Game Jam.
This was always meant to be a Single Choice Game.
This was an abandonned game that found a new life.
Expect terrible prose and bad tuning of the game mechanic.
Cover art from Angelo Pantazis on Unsplash.
Written in ink.

Game Details

Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: August 9, 2023
Current Version: Unknown
License: Freeware
Development System: Ink
IFID: Unknown
TUID: yfb9fyxmhiu0wgil

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Entrant - Single Choice Jam

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A short take on Goncharov, the fake Tumblr movie, January 16, 2024

by MathBrush
Related reviews: less than 15 minutes

This was written for the single choice jam.

In 2023 (or maybe starting 2022?) Tumblr started pretending that there was a movie called 'Goncharov' based on a misprint on some merchandise for another movie. Together they collaboratively invented the main characters and plotline.

This game spends a few paragraphs summarizing that plot, and then gives you a single choice. That choice only gives a couple paragraphs more of text, but leads to very different endings.

Getting more detail on Goncharov was definitely interesting, but it felt like this was just setting up a lot of background info for a story that itself was quite insubstantial. What was here was good, just not a lot of it.

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A small taste of unreality, August 30, 2023

by manonamora
Related reviews: singlechoice

While this was probably one of the shortest entry of the Single Choice Jam, its subject matter has a special place in my heart (having been part of the Goncharov craze). And, following in those footsteps, the game took its own part of the canon, recreating the setting for the confrontation between Goncharov and Andrej.

To save the most precious thing in his life Goncharov made a deal, one which would involve betraying his friend. You choice here is to either follow through with this plan, or double-cross the dealing party. Which ever option you choose, the scene ends abruptly. But the consequences… they wait for no one.

Though the game is very short, I did enjoy the way the scene was set - in some sort of a Previously in Goncharov serialised way. It gave the fairly intricate (overall non-canon) story some touch of humour.

This was a treat.