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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 Destructoid Blog
OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tazarthayoot's Destructoid Blog
Also, Passage is great. Niero even made a mod of it called The Mr. Dtoid story.
pancakes mcgee's Destructoid Blog
thanks....i've been looking for a rediculously huge picture of an explosion.
tazarthayoot's Destructoid Blog
I do what I can.
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog


Here is a picture of Barrak Obama if you ever need it.
Coonskin05's Destructoid Blog
You've got to be shitting me.
Genki-JAM's Destructoid Blog
You've shitting got me to be.
Shalashaska's Destructoid Blog
Shitting got you've to me.
Spartacus's Destructoid Blog
Shitting me got you have got got to got be got.
Tricoden's Destructoid Blog
You've got to be boston pancaking me.
Tubatic's Destructoid Blog
boston . . . huh?!
van's Destructoid Blog
surely, you must be shitting me.
pancakes mcgee's Destructoid Blog
no i'm not. and don't call me shirley.


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