BareBones by zeelyndz

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made by zeelyndz for LD26 (JAM)
A bare bones narrative of sexuality.
[Had issues with the link at first, works now~!]

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1364
Overall(Jam) 2.89 362
Fun(Jam) 2.32 460
Innovation(Jam) 2.89 297
Mood(Jam) 3.62 83
Theme(Jam) 3.46 206

Feedback

Yorwba
29. Apr 2013 · 16:30 UTC
Dropbox blocks me out.
mtrc
29. Apr 2013 · 18:20 UTC
Yep! Same here. Looking forward to taking a look once you fix it :)
Tigrounette
29. Apr 2013 · 18:24 UTC
error 403
runonthespot
29. Apr 2013 · 20:18 UTC
Dude, within dropbox, you need to grab the public link and post it here
arrogant.gamer
29. Apr 2013 · 20:32 UTC
I was unable to review this game because I was blocked by dropbox, even after signing in! Sorry!
sparkleswirl
29. Apr 2013 · 20:52 UTC
Think your privacy settings made it so that it wasn't accessible. =(
🎤 zeelyndz
30. Apr 2013 · 13:34 UTC
It's working now, sorry about that!
saguaro
02. May 2013 · 12:28 UTC
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
03. May 2013 · 14:10 UTC
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
03. May 2013 · 14:51 UTC
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
03. May 2013 · 15:09 UTC
That was different.
Hume
03. May 2013 · 15:26 UTC
I appreciated the writing. However I couldn't explore the game as it felt sexually violent to me, despite the setting.
MattHartley
03. May 2013 · 21:53 UTC
Interesting and very well written, good job!
Martin Vilcans
03. May 2013 · 22:05 UTC
Very different.
[-BipolarDesign+]
03. May 2013 · 22:58 UTC
Incredible. Well done, I'm happy I happened upon this one.
Jyrkface
04. May 2013 · 06:12 UTC
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
04. May 2013 · 20:00 UTC
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
05. May 2013 · 01:09 UTC
You're a really talented writer. Good going with this one!
arrogant.gamer
05. May 2013 · 23:42 UTC
What an unusual twist! This isn't a thing that I had ever imagined, and I am always glad for something new.