Comments on: YouDunnit: a game that travels backwards in time

By: bex

bex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

this game explains why you don’t talk to the cops,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

By: Sal Paradise

Sal Paradise — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can’t I go back in time and kill the detective?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There was a shortish interactive fiction game written for the IFComp several years ago which played with a similar idea – there was a time machine which you could use to jump around in time a bit, but you had to ensure that you never generated any observable paradoxes for your past self, like leaving a door open that your past self saw was closed at that time.

http://www.amirrorclear.net/flowers/game/devours/index.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Spider and Web

http://www.wurb.com/if/game/207

This is all I could think about as I read your description (which has a small typo “If you catches you out in an ” should read “If HE catches you.”). I must admit, I am intrigued.

Play Spider and Web. It’s an interactive fiction game. A ‘Text-Adventure’, if you will. (For our younger set think of Text Adventures as the novel to the movie represented by games like Heavy Rain.)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

By: CpnCodpiece

CpnCodpiece — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In the same vein, may I also HIGHLY recommend the excellent art/puzzle game
Braid.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Scarybug/chronotron

By: sludig

sludig — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Thus, for example, if you give someone a cat in hour -1, and fail to pick up the cat in a previous hour, you lose.”

I may be simple, but if you’re successful… from that person’s point of view, you stole the cat they didn’t have, and then brought it back?

By: ian71

ian71 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Whatever Happened, Happened!”

or do you not watch Lost?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

dammit, this is essentially the exact same game mechanic i’ve been working on. sigh.

By: airshowfan

airshowfan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow, that is the most creative game I have heard of in months. “Memento” meets “Clue” in a semi-RPG, semi-Text-Adventure format. I am extremely impressed. Can’t wait to give it a try. (I think the last time I said this about a video game was when I first heard of Portal. No, video games are not a big part of my life, although that’s changing now that I have a touchscreen phone).

And I couldn’t help but think that this will be popular among movie nitpickers; Y’know, the people who say “He was holding the glass with his other hand in the previous shot!” or “That wound was a little bigger at the beginning of the fight”. It’s like a challenge: Let’s see if YOU can maintain continuity!