I like it how there is always 'hope', from before being born to after death (until you are forgotten).
Will you drown?
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#92Somehow this is extremely profound. After playing this, I feel like I need to digest my feelings for a while.
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#93This is great... I love the way it lays out popular ways of narrativizing our lives and making sense of what we need to be content. This game captures a popular narrative and popular needs, but it's also a great starting point for ruminating on how we differ from each other. For example, some of us may have little ambition or no pressing need to create and yet may be perfectly content. We should recognize our own nee…
For me, the game is more about the increasing complexity of life and the difficulty in managing it. As a toddler, all you had tow worry about was play and learn.
Pretty soon, you add in jobs, worries, lovers, heartbreaks, friendships, losing friends, money, self esteem, etc. And the more you try to optimize one area, the more you neglect the other areas, and the game becomes increasingly difficult to balance, just like life itself.
What a beautiful piece of art.
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#94I played this for a while with redshift on, and so didn't realize that the requirements for needs were listed (in invisible red).
I think it may have actually made the game better in some ways.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me it ended in my death, with no hope left. It might be a slight timing problem (e.g. play around with the interval and see what happens)
I died with hope!! Also, I noticed that something compounded to solve if you had more of them, notably stress. When you only had 1, it was instantaneous to solve. If you had more than one, the percent counter took time
Noticed that too - thought it was pretty significant.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
You say that as if those concepts were not totally orthogonal.
but they're not bird-like at all :S
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#97Reminds me of the old Alter Ego .. sadly the JS reboot is down right now. http://jayisgames.com/archives/2010/11/alter_ego.php
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#98Another depression-oriented game. Well, thanks to parallelization, I got to make love during work hours, so I must say my life wasn't all bad.
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#100A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Not really. You can farm as much stuff/money/ETC as you want.