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Great five minute game...
pancakes mcgee | 7:47 PM on 01.29.2008 13 comments


The game is Passage and it
only takes five minutes to play. And at the end...you turn old and grey, and die.

A quick description from the creator:

Passage is meant to be a memento mori game. It presents an entire life, from young
adulthood through old age and death, in the span of five minutes. Of course, it's a game,
not a painting or a film, so the choices that you make as the player are crucial. There's no
"right" way to play Passage, just as there's no right way to interpret it. However, I had
specific intentions for the various mechanics and features that I included.

As I said before, there's no right way to play this game. Part of the goal, in fact, is to get
you to reflect on the choices that you make while playing. The rewards in Passage come in
the form of points added to your score...

Yes, you could spend your five minutes trying to accumulate as many points as possible,
but in the end, death is still coming for you. Your score looks pretty meaningless hovering
there above your little tombstone. This treatment of character death stands in stark
contrast with the way death is commonly used in video games (where you die countless
times during a given game and emerge victorious---and still alive---in the end). Passage is
a game in which you die only once, at the very end, and you are powerless to stave off this
inevitable loss...

You have to download the game (2MB), which is available for the pc or mac. It's worth
checking out as it doesn't offer the level of entertainment you're used to as a gamer, but
does encourage quite a bit of reflection.

Enjoy.



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tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 20:00
tazarthayoot
OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 20:02
tazarthayoot
Also, Passage is great. Niero even made a mod of it called The Mr. Dtoid story.
pancakes mcgee's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 20:02
pancakes mcgee
thanks....i've been looking for a rediculously huge picture of an explosion.
tazarthayoot's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 20:04
tazarthayoot
I do what I can.
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 20:06
MrSadistic


Here is a picture of Barrak Obama if you ever need it.
Coonskin05's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 20:09
Coonskin05
You've got to be shitting me.
Genki-JAM's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 20:24
Genki-JAM
You've shitting got me to be.
Shalashaska161's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 21:01
Shalashaska161
Shitting got you've to me.
Spartacus's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 21:12
Spartacus
Shitting me got you have got got to got be got.
Tricoden's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 21:44
Tricoden
You've got to be boston pancaking me.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 22:00
Tubatic
boston . . . huh?!
van's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/29/2008 23:56
van
surely, you must be shitting me.
pancakes mcgee's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/30/2008 01:08
pancakes mcgee
no i'm not. and don't call me shirley.
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