Once again, assorted thoughts about Aaron Reed’s Blue Lacuna, spoiler-cut and with the RSS feed limited in order to avoid spoiling the unwary.
This time around I mostly have notes rather than coherent analysis: there’s a lot where I don’t know where it’s going yet.
Ready? Okay, here we go:
I’m enjoying settling into Blue Lacuna, and I’d like to write some more about it as I play. In the interest of controlling spoilers, though, I’ve set my RSS feed to truncate posts again (as seen during the IF Competition) so that with any luck I won’t leak things to Planet IF and other aggregators that people might not be ready to see.
I hope that doesn’t annoy anyone too much, but there’s a lot here I’d like to be able to discuss while the game is still fresh and (probably) being played by others as well. And if you’re not playing it, give it a try. It’s the biggest thing to come along in years, and I don’t mean that just in terms of raw size. There is serious ambition here.
Hereafter, some thoughts about play through the beginning of chapter 2, with spoilers.
…this time on the iPhone game Ruben & Lullaby, in which you affect character moods during a fight and help determine how it turns out. Strange, intriguing stuff.
Some initial reactions to just the beginning of Aaron Reed’s “Blue Lacuna” — cut for very mild spoilers.
which took JayIsGames’ “Best of 2008” award in the interactive fiction category.
Aaron Reed’s enormous new IF work, Blue Lacuna, is now available to download and play. It looks formidable — check it out.
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