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Davzz: Jul 31, 2008

Flanca, the world without: the boy backstage, the forgotten bouquet, the man in black, the painter.

Your move.

Edit:
So, what is this game?

quote:

The game is called "The World To Reverse", a visual novel translated during "altogether 2006", which is the visual novel fan translation equivalent of NaNoWriMo. In short, a bunch of people get together to translate a short freeware visual novel (none of them have the usual carton porn that commercial visual novels usually have). There has been 3 such events already for 2005, 2006 and 2008.

Due to my own stupidity (and some people argue that the game isn't that well-suited for an LP, but I stand by my decision), this LP is probably dead in the waters without audience participation. However, for the few people who wants to finish the game themselves and haven't already done so, I'm providing the download link.

The game can be downloaded at this URL http://at2006.haeleth.net/game.php?id=7

The game that I attempted to showcase, Flanca, is actually only one of the two games that make up TWTR. The other, Hallucinate, is unrelated story-wise but an interesting contrast to this game. e.g it's primary colour scheme is white, it has actual graphics and eerie sounding music made up of what seems to be a random noise generator and etc. I actually like that one better, so even if you played Flanca already, give that one a try.

The LP was inspired by an LP of an Interactive Fiction game called "Shrapnel" by Adam Cadre. If you're looking for more short stories that does weird stuff with the medium, check it out.

You can also try the other games that are translated on the altogether website, but I find this one to be the most memorable of the 2006 batch. I never tried any of the 2008 batch but I do recommend 2005's Narcissu for its almost professional quality, even if it's not really similar to these games.

Thanks for reading.

Davzz fucked around with this message at Nov 14, 2009 around 11:22

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:21

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# ? Nov 22, 2009 10:51

Alabaster White: Apr 20, 2009

Interesting! Follow the guy.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:25

iolo_the_bard: Sep 13, 2007; Lord of the Pie

Seconded, Agree, and go watch.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:26

Frankomatic: Aug 22, 2007; I'm DON PATCHI!

Refuse, he's wearing women's clothes. Actor or not, that's not trustworthy behavior.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:26

iolo_the_bard: Sep 13, 2007; Lord of the Pie

Frankomatic posted:

Refuse, he's wearing women's clothes. Actor or not, that's not trustworthy behavior.

Maybe he's a Shakespearean actor, in which all the characters, male or female, are played by dudes.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:29

Frankomatic: Aug 22, 2007; I'm DON PATCHI!

iolo_the_bard posted:

Maybe he's a Shakespearean actor, in which all the characters, male or female, are played by dudes.

Still not trustworthy! Actors are probably the least trustworthy of all. He could be acting right now and you'd never know it.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:31

RZApublican: Nov 06, 2007

Thirded, go for it.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:39

Davzz: Jul 31, 2008

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:43

RZApublican: Nov 06, 2007

Follow the usher's directions, he was a very pretty girl.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:46

Brain In A Jar: Apr 21, 2008; Worst. BBEG. Ever.

The usher suspects your NAMBLAous intent. Ignore his directions and find the room yourself!

# ? Nov 03, 2009 02:59

iolo_the_bard: Sep 13, 2007; Lord of the Pie

Ushers are outdated. Ignore him.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 03:00

poopcup: Jun 27, 2007; Please place your sample in the repository.

The help is not to be trusted, wander aimlessly in search of your ladyboy.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 03:26

Davzz: Jul 31, 2008

Actually, looks like our character decides to just walk out of the building altogether

# ? Nov 03, 2009 03:28

RBA Starblade: Apr 28, 2008

Let's agree, since it was our fault for apparently choosing to look for the guy outside anyway.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 03:49

poopcup: Jun 27, 2007; Please place your sample in the repository.

Old ladies usually have hard candies, follow her.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 03:54

iolo_the_bard: Sep 13, 2007; Lord of the Pie

Go with her, but be wary...

# ? Nov 03, 2009 03:58

Trochantin: Jun 16, 2009

Refuse. We must get to the man in drag.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:18

RZApublican: Nov 06, 2007

Trochantin posted:

Refuse. We must get to the man in drag.

Seconding this.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:28

not meme its you: Jan 11, 2007; Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!

Trochantin posted:

Refuse. We must get to the man in drag.

thirded, if only because we must get to the bottom of this heinous mystery.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:32

Davzz: Jul 31, 2008

3 to 2 for following the woman I guess

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:32

Tarezax: Sep 12, 2009

Let her vent.

Keep quiet and listen to her story.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:34

not meme its you: Jan 11, 2007; Text BEEP to 43527 for the dancing robot!

woah slow down there smokey let more people get a chance to choose a direction in the thread! I mean seriously 4 minutes between updates is barely enough time to get a decent goonsensus going!!!!

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:36

RZApublican: Nov 06, 2007

Offer her the flowers.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:40

Davzz: Jul 31, 2008

not meme its you posted:

I mean seriously 4 minutes between updates is barely enough time to get a decent goonsensus going!!!!

? According to the post times there's at least half an hour between them, as far as I can tell. And I'm actually aiming for like 5 votes before I update, but sure, I'll slow down.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:42

poopcup: Jun 27, 2007; Please place your sample in the repository.

Offer her flowers.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:42

Technical Analysis: Nov 21, 2007; I got 99 problems but the British ain't one.

Women like it when a man pretends to listen to them.

Keep silent for a minute, and we might get somewhere with this.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:51

Ratatozsk: Mar 06, 2007; Had we turned left instead, we may have encountered something like this...

When my sister died, I clocked the first person who offered me flowers.

I mean, that was my personal experience with this specific instance, but I'm just saying...

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:56

Benagain: Oct 10, 2007; Not amused.

Listen!

# ? Nov 03, 2009 04:57

onepiecekenny: Apr 02, 2007; Which side is the head?

Benagain posted:

Listen!

seconded

# ? Nov 03, 2009 05:06

iolo_the_bard: Sep 13, 2007; Lord of the Pie

Stay a while and listen.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 05:18

Sparda219: Nov 21, 2007; If the word "hate" was written across every every piece of Keroppi stationary...

Let's listen and keep the flowers. We might run into our pretty boy again!

# ? Nov 03, 2009 05:28

ssskinner: May 07, 2007; Hey. Do you like scarves?

iolo_the_bard posted:

Stay a while and listen.

I'm with Deckard Cain here.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 05:32

Benstar: Aug 03, 2008

Open your mind to us. Share with us your secrets.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 06:41

ThePineapple: Oct 19, 2009

Chiming in to say listen.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 06:47

Davzz: Jul 31, 2008

Listen: 10 (counting Ratatozsk in this camp)
Give Flowers: 2

Roses are red, you're dead!

YOU ARE DEAD... posted:

Deaths: Poisoned by flowers

Path Taken posted:

Try Again?

So, that ends one playthrough, as the map implies, we're not done yet though! As my first LP, I need some feedback. Was I too fast for first few choices? Or would you not mind missing some of the votes? Not enough commentary? (As you noticed, most characters are kind of unnamed. Lone Wolf style hijinks might not be possible here)

# ? Nov 03, 2009 07:53

Tarezax: Sep 12, 2009

...the fuuuuuuuuuuuck?!

I think we are in for a fun time here. Eagerly awaiting more

Edit: I think the original speed was a little too fast, but 10 votes per choice seems like a good benchmark.

Also voting for following the boy.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 07:57

poopcup: Jun 27, 2007; Please place your sample in the repository.

Follow the boy.

As far as the LP goes I'm enjoying it, if anything the lack of extra commentary leaves that much more to guess about. And judging by how quick it is to wind up dead I think it might be better to not wait for too many votes as it seems we'll be backtracking each time up until the fork that got us killed. Unless we get lucky.

Judging by the way the map is laid out I would guess us to be the at the very center from the start.

poopcup fucked around with this message at Nov 03, 2009 around 08:18

# ? Nov 03, 2009 08:07

Rincebrain: Dec 10, 2004; STOP MAKING BULLSHIT REPORTS ON PEOPLE, ASSHOLE

DIVE ON IN

# ? Nov 03, 2009 08:17

the talent deficit: Dec 20, 2003; it was the enemy who stole your food from you and you should be rilly, rilly mad at them!

Follow that boy! What game is this?

# ? Nov 03, 2009 08:18

iolo_the_bard: Sep 13, 2007; Lord of the Pie

Might as well follow this time.

# ? Nov 03, 2009 13:15

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