Follow the hand-drawn story about meeting a new friend and solve a couple of light puzzles on your way in Trust the blackbird, a game by Anastasia Merzlaya.
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Nice but slow.
ReplyDeleteNicely done. I appreciate the different structure and the quiet feel of the artwork. When the next scene did not load right away, I wasn't sure if I needed to have clicked on something or if I just needed to wait a bit longer. Looking forward to the future adventures. Thanks Anastasia and Bart!
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely charming! I love the art. The bird is so cute!
ReplyDeleteREALLY slow and I couldn't click on anything. Gave up after I couldn't select the wrong flag.
ReplyDeleteI have to give this one a big thumbs-down as well. I do think the art was nice, but this was supposed to be a game, and as a game, it was a complete failure. Having to sloooowly scroll the screen was tedious (especially requiring the keyboard for what was essentially a mouse-driven game), and having to click on certain things to make the story progress was completely unintuitive and devoid of feedback to know if this was me clicking on something random that made it happen, or it was just one of the automatic advancements. More than once, I wound up scrolling through a bunch of blank panels wondering if something had broken.
ReplyDeleteEven worse, the two bits of actual "gameplay" (and I use the term loosely) were tedious and felt clumsily inserted simply to justify calling this a game. The flags? I just kept clicking on them all until one finally was correct. Even upon closely inspecting it after the fact, I still had no idea why it was different. The constellations? You're really going to make us match dots to finish this thing? Fine, just let me out of here already.
Very cute, although the pictures sometimes won't appear on time.
ReplyDelete(Someone in the comments seems to know nothing about interactive stories, btw... Or maybe they are just a hater, they won't even show themselves lol)
It is a nice, slow bedtime story, calm music, cute pics, perfect before going to sleep. :-) It worked perfectly for me.
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely game.
ReplyDeleteWell, Yu, I don't think I'm a hater (even though I don't like "twitch" games that are too fast for my 75-year-old reflexes). But I have to agree with the two Anonymous posters about the "wrong" flag not really being different in any way i could see. I zoomed it up to about 170% and, even knowing which flag to click, I couldn't see anything about it that stood out. If you know what made it different, please tell us.
ReplyDelete@Andy: The flags are in a pattern of repeating colors. The sequence is about a dozen long, but you don't even have to pick up on that whole thing. Notice how each green flag in the string is followed by a specific color flag? Except one? It's really not that hard to figure out.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous complaining about the keyboard: the mouse wheel scrolls the page just fine for me.