Naked Shades

I like the feel of this one. It's not as much about narrative as it is about the feeling of each piece.

Is there an ending? I couldn't find one. I also ran into a bug with a corpse.

Hi protensity-- we fixed two bugs with corpses during submission hour, one gamebreaking, and this would have been uploaded after you played. With the bugs fixed we tested and it is possible to win. Porpentine has done it.

i'm winner

Very evocative.

I didn't win... I made lots of Lamia run away, but in the end I think I got lost. Maybe I'll make a map next time.

This is the greatest videogame in human history.

VICTORY

Oh neat! This is multi-player? I didn't realize that! I had hoped that my game was the only multi-player interactive fiction... OK well I will give this another spin and put more effort into understanding.

(if I'd known Twine could be used for multiplayer stories, maybe I wouldn't have rolled my own).

Thanks!

arrogant.gamer... Twine *couldn't* be used for multiplayer stories before we released this... we wrote the software that makes it possible *during the jam* :D

I'll be cleaning up and publicly releasing the multiplayer-Twine framework as open source as soon as I can (I need to detangle the game-specific parts from the generic parts, and I might refine the API a little). In the meanwhile thanks for letting us know about your game.

Congratulations on making a multiplayer twine game! Very cool, the sparse use of words in each description does a good job of developing a very vivid mental image. I found myself rapidly clicking through the links for areas I had already visited, which wasn't very fun for me but I believe it to be an action specifically designed into the game to make the shock of death by lamia that much worse. Good work.

Persistence, in a twine game? Nice work!

nice nice, I said "miaow" and "parp" into the void. nice economy of words, effective, solid.

This. Also, I think I ate my own corpse??? Satisfying!

Hi eskaibo, I enjoyed your piano playing and then I ate your corpse I hope you don't mind!

I got spells like whoa. an aura like fresh cut grass. my ancestors have defeated armies of skeleton warriors. my skin is mossy, like a newborn babe's.

I can't get enough of this world, gosh

What a cool experience, awesome narrative :) Thanks for sharing this!

uh oh
The webpage at http://vote.runhello.com:4334/twine/shades.html might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
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Not my type of game, but for what I played, it seemed well made.

The4thCircle: The server has been having some periodic difficulties. I'm trying to take steps to prevent this from happening again. In the meantime if you see server issues happening please tweet me @mcclure111 and I'll do something quick.

Super interesting project! Surprisingly fun, but really the fact that you created this twine extension in the timeframe of the jam alone is impressive. I hope it catches on!

How long is it supposed to pause at a blank screen? My screen was dark for a few minutes a couple times. Had to reload.

It should never pause at a blank screen for more than a second. *Usually* you shouldn't notice blank screens at all, the blank screen should go by too quickly to notice. If the screen goes dark and stays that way for more than ten seconds, you can assume the server burped and your game is effectively "crashed". Sorry :( We didn't have time to implement retry/failover behavior.

Nice! kinda like Zork! :D

Just like old times. Good.

Really really like it! Writing is so good.

Unique. Not a fan of the style/genre, but that's a preference. Executed well. Should. Have. Made. A. Map. :)

Gave me goose bumps. I had no idea about multiplayer in IF, that's very unique indeed. I loved the solo campaign just fine though : )

Lovely writing. Enjoyed playing. Got killed first time, couldn't find ending second time.

Sad to see the "ecosystem" had been picked clean by the time I was able to get to it - apparently there's something missing that I can't collect, no matter how many times I die. Other than that, brilliant concept.

For the record, the download no longer works. I really wish I could still play this.