Killing Time

by bobo72a
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.45
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.13
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.56
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.07
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★57%
Made in Twine, Killing Time is a minimalist story game about a series of murders plaguing El Paso Texas in 1957.

Now available on a web server!

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Comments21

mikelovesrobots3
mikelovesrobots329 Apr 2013, 03:45
Pretty cool story. Serving the html as a google document seemed weird. Maybe you could throw it up on dropbox instead?
paulopn
paulopn29 Apr 2013, 04:03
Hey, nice story writing!
Got me really interested in the story.
voxel29 Apr 2013, 05:05
Would like to see a longer version of this. Also see if you can figure out a way of hosting this so we dont have to download it :) you'll get a lot more plays that way
gabehollombe
gabehollombe29 Apr 2013, 05:06
Well, I wasn't expecting to play a game with some violent descriptions, but yeah, hey, nice job on setting the mood. Although I didn't feel compelled to keep playing after I got murdered down the hall.
bobo72aauthor29 Apr 2013, 05:09
Thanks for all the feedback everyone. I got my friend to upload the latest version to his web server, so now it's available to play immediately :)
baldwinthree29 Apr 2013, 05:10
Seemed to be written in a noir-esque style. This was actually my first Twine game, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Shame it's incomplete!
namuol
namuol29 Apr 2013, 05:16
Nice potato cameo.
namuol
namuol29 Apr 2013, 05:22
Lots of potential, here. Please finish it!
nseward
nseward29 Apr 2013, 06:05
Nice story. I wish the rewind worked for me.
svenardo29 Apr 2013, 06:47
Nice. Always fun to play these fish out the water games. Should definitely flesh it out and make it longer!
Sestren29 Apr 2013, 12:13
Reminds me a little bit of how Dark City starts out. I'm with everyone else here, it should be longer.
DustyStylus
DustyStylus29 Apr 2013, 17:41
Hehehe, I had DOSBOX and even downloaded CWSDPMI to try this out. It is minimalist to the max! Well done. :D
DustyStylus
DustyStylus29 Apr 2013, 17:43
Argh, sorry, I posted in the wrong page!! Have fixed the score.
Alex Camilleri30 Apr 2013, 20:34
Kept me busy for a bit, but after a while I got a bit bored. I like how most of it is very concise. The intro was nice, but it didn't really manage to grab me.
protensity1 May 2013, 21:59
I liked it - wish it was longer and had a real ending.
Christina Nordlander
Christina Nordlander7 May 2013, 22:30
I enjoyed this. You've done a pretty good job on the film noir murder mystery ambience. Reminded me a bit of the old NES game "Déjà Vu". The unusual writing style works pretty well. The story isn't hugely original, but you've created a good sense of horror. In game terms, this is solid Twine work.

Nice way to bring in potatoes, too.

I must admit I was a bit disappointed to find that

SPOILERS

... I got a "to be continued" message the moment the story seemed to be going somewhere.

END SPOILERS

But that just testifies to the story sucking me in. Nice interactive story.
filtoid17 May 2013, 11:46
Nice - I died p quickly but went back to play again - I like it. :)

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