I like the concept, it's thought provoking and deep. And I think it should be a mobile game. So you can play a game on your phone about how you read news on your phone.
This is pretty neat! I love experimental entries like this. I can see this being kind of a neat live wallpaper or something. The ambiance and lighting are really nice.
I'ma try to come back to this one later in the day to see how things change. 🙂
@coleslaughter Thank you! If you want to cheat and watch the day/night cycle you can press "P" and then it will play the cycle at something like 1000x the speed :)
@pincushion Yeah... in retrospect I should have given the text a backdrop or a drop-shadow or something so that it's always visible.. Thanks for the comment!
Interesting little experience, and really impressive having it pulled together in a weekend. I like something like this that can play with interactivity and our expectations of a game to highlight some real world issues in a novel way. Very nice.
It is not a game much, but rather an interactive experience. I always like then someone picks such concepts because I will be able see them in life. Thank you for choosing this theme of the game (social interaction via a phone) and finished the game. I was thinking of the similar one when I was coming one with an idea for my game, but discarded it for some reason. Overall, I like the visuals they make the right mood and not too personal. Good job!
Very interesting take here. I think it has some interesting things to say. I'm really interested in how you integrated the news feeds. Are you accessing an API somewhere, or are you pulling the RSS feeds that way?
@geraldfingburke I'm just reading the RSS xml files, and doing so very poorly, reloading the entire thing and repopulating the UI every time the phone opens instead of just checking for updates.
Had I had more time i would have wanted to pull from all three news sources at once and sort them by date, keeping that list and only adding new entries on opening the phone.
I really appreciated this experience, like a more somber and introspective version of a virtual pet. I'm going to leave it open for a while and see what happens. Just one piece of design critique, the "press space" text is not readable against the background for me (at 2:00pm). Now I'm just wondering: what's outside the window?
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I'ma try to come back to this one later in the day to see how things change. 🙂
The "press space" instruction was hidden until night. I needed to cheat and press "P" to find out.
I appreciate the unique entry. Well done.
Thanks for the comment!
Had I had more time i would have wanted to pull from all three news sources at once and sort them by date, keeping that list and only adding new entries on opening the phone.