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BareBones

By zeelyndz

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Mood833.62
Theme2063.46
Innovation2972.89
Overall3622.89
Fun4602.32
Coolness136446

Comments

yorwba 2013-04-29 16:35

Dropbox blocks me out.

mtrc 2013-04-29 18:25

Yep! Same here. Looking forward to taking a look once you fix it :)

tigrounette 2013-04-29 18:29

error 403

runonthespot 2013-04-29 20:23

Dude, within dropbox, you need to grab the public link and post it here

arrogant-gamer 2013-04-29 20:37

I was unable to review this game because I was blocked by dropbox, even after signing in! Sorry!

sparkleswirl 2013-04-29 20:57

Think your privacy settings made it so that it wasn't accessible. =(

zeelyndz 2013-04-30 13:39

It's working now, sorry about that!

saguaro 2013-05-02 12:33

I like the idea of two people "breaking down" to the bones. The concept is interesting and reflects the theme, but the prose is dense.

A little pruning, and breaking the writing down into smaller passages with more hyperlinks, would help the flow.

orni 2013-05-03 14:15

this is some serious writing going on here - I like it :)

interactive prose has real potential and I'm happy to find such a game on LD.

well done

mtrc 2013-05-03 14:56

I really like the mood, and the endings (I went back and explored it further). The prose is really nice in places too.

I guess part of me would have liked more exploration, but this is me thinking like it's parser-based IF, which is not the only thing Twine can do. So ignore me! I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the mood. Lovely piece.

Thanks for letting me know it was back up :)

someone 2013-05-03 15:14

That was different.

hume 2013-05-03 15:31

I appreciated the writing. However I couldn't explore the game as it felt sexually violent to me, despite the setting.

MattHartley 2013-05-03 21:58

Interesting and very well written, good job!

vilcans 2013-05-03 22:10

Very different.

bipolarmike 2013-05-03 23:03

Incredible. Well done, I'm happy I happened upon this one.

jyrkface 2013-05-04 06:17

Great writing. Sometimes repeats phrases too close together, common rush stuff, but the ideas were well explored and vocabulary was well put to use.

christina-nordlander 2013-05-04 20:05

Spellcheck: "franticly" should be "frantically"; "out tibias" should be "our".

Quite a good interactive story. I'm not very interested in erotica, so I was happy to find that this wasn't your average sex scene. There was enough variation to make me play through it for all the different storylines, too.

My one complaint is that the writing skill fluctuates a bit. At its best, it's absolutely arresting; however, it can get a bit overblown in places. There's also a bit of an overuse of the word "off", occasionally several times in the same sentence. (And "off of" isn't necessary: you could just write "off" in those instances.) I'm probably judging the writing very harshly, but a game like this stands or falls by the quality of its writing.

That said, when your writing is good, it's very good indeed. The central idea of this story is going to stay with me for a long time. I also like how it's possible to reach one ending without encountering the fantasy/surreal element.

tyro 2013-05-05 01:14

You're a really talented writer. Good going with this one!

arrogant-gamer 2013-05-05 23:47

What an unusual twist! This isn't a thing that I had ever imagined, and I am always glad for something new.