Just made a couple of important alterations to Phenomenon 32, which took down the overall size of the game (in MB) by something like 40%, while simultaneously giving me some cool new options. Yay!
I’m also working on adding more features that wouldn’t have been in the contest version. I want this game to be detailed and fun. As usual with my games, it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but to those with the right mindset it should be a lot of fun. (And yes, it still has a real story.)
So – new game soon. For now, have a nice Suspiciously Pagan Holiday.
John Hauser
/ April 18, 2009Another question:
What do you mean with the pagan holiday?
John Hauser
/ April 18, 2009Oh, also, today i remembered a passage from the great machine, game that i played, a year or so ago.
It may be different from the real text, i’ve just remembered it
There is a man sitting there, outside the camp, hes making a prayer, suddenly, as you get near, he gets up, and with a wail, he lunges at you, you move aside, the man falls and sinks on the mud till you can´t see him.
This has some implicit meaning, right?
Jonas
/ April 18, 2009Easter, of course. There’s nothing particularly Christian about bunny rabbits and painted eggs. Christianity intentionally put all of its major holidays on top of ancient pagan holidays; it didn’t always work out as cleanly as they had probably hoped. Thus, people to this day worship fertility symbols in the beginning of spring.
I don’t put in stuff by accident, generally speaking. (Though sometimes meaning arises unintentionally, which is wonderful.) But as to interpretation… that’s entirely up to you.