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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Text Adventures - When authors pretend to be programmers and visa versa
 
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Ghost Head
Sep 16, 2008
 I love that part in Photopia where they suddenly add "fly" to your list of allowed verbs. It was a very subtle and cool way to give the player a kind of dizzying feeling when you contrast it with the more grounded, typical verbs you have access to for the rest of the game. Photopia is almost like an inverse Dear Esther or something. In Dear Esther you do one mundane thing constantly. In Photopia you don't really do anything until something comes along that would be meaningful to put into the hands of the player.

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Ghost Head
Sep 16, 2008
 i think my analysis was the best. gently caress all y'all.

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