Alt+Escape: Every Day the Same Dream

[AC Medina]

It seems like independent and solo developers/programmers have been carrying the torch on thoughtful, experimental, even philosophical games for quite some time now. I hope that flash/browser games keep going in this direction, since we're unlikely to see much of it in major commercial games any time soon.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

neat...but not as epic as this
"It is said that in the final days of planet earth everyone had bad dreams.
To the west and the north of that world.The human race did gather in celebration of a pagan right to banish the cold and the dark.
Each and everyone of those people had dreamt of terrible things to come.But they forgot, because they must. They forgot, their nightmares, of fire, and war and insanity. They forgot, except for one......"

A cookie to anyone who can name it!

Doctor Who and The End of Time


anyways, it a real neat game! i really liked the visuals and message behind the game!

A cookie is given! :X

For using Google?

Nooo!!!! For replying to zippy =^0^= I is not so lonely now!!!!!
LOL

 

[Xylis]

Wow. That was just...wow. I loved it.

 

[kashif1]

this makes me think about the sort of life I'll have once i leave high-school. I wonder if that's all there is to a normal life.

 

[Aedes]

That was... I don't know. Weird is not the word.
Different, I guess.
I suppose this is not a game but an interative art.

 

[saejox]

reminds of the intro of Another World.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Talk about an emotional setup. That was astounding. I got caught watching by a fellow lab tech, and they were talking for like a minute before I even noticed them, I was that involved.

 

[keitarobg]

enjoyed! thanks for the great recommendation .

 

[atalanta]

Very nice, and quite a freaky ending..

I found the ending rather unsettling myself. It reminds me a lot of another game that was featured here quite some time ago, actually... it was deliberately low-res graphics, and it was based off some greek mythology, I believe... I forget what it was called, though.

Don't Look Back, based on the Orpheus myth?

I quite liked this one. Some of the things you do were heavy-handed (catching the leaf, in particular), but the game as a whole was lovely. Whoever wrote the music did a bang-up job.

 

[Outlaw Torn]

I seem to be stuck with 'one step' left. How annoying =/

 

[j0z]

like this game, but I am stuck on the last step I have to do

 

[Sennz0r]

Makes me wonder where the wife went off to though. Down with the rest of 'em?

 

[Davey Woo]

Hmmmm. I don't get it.
I went to work the first day, the next day I jumped, then I woke up again...

Don't really understand this game.

 

[Patroclus]

well i beat it... i guess =/ I didn't really get the point of it. To be honest, I found myself less haunted and more bored.

 

[TheTygerfire]

I just went out in my underwear and pet a cow. That is anything but a normal day.

 

[Andronicus]

It was nice, but I wish there were more things to do to "shake up my day", more steps to take, so to speak. I liked how the graph of productiveness/profit keeps going down each new step you take.

 

[The Random One]

Great game. Cool premise, the graphics really pull off this monochrome but not quite thing right, and the song is amazing.

Can't really say I got the ending, though. True Art is Incomprehensible?

 

[MGlBlaze]

Very nice, and quite a freaky ending..

I found the ending rather unsettling myself. It reminds me a lot of another game that was featured here quite some time ago, actually... it was deliberately low-res graphics, and it was based off some greek mythology, I believe... I forget what it was called, though.

Don't Look Back, based on the Orpheus myth?

I quite liked this one. Some of the things you do were heavy-handed (catching the leaf, in particular), but the game as a whole was lovely. Whoever wrote the music did a bang-up job.

Yup, that was the game I was thinking of. Thanks for catching the name for me. The ending had the same sort of 'mind screw' feel to it.

I have to admit, though, the leaf one was a little obvious (not to mention you had to wait around for quite a while before the thing dropped); not so much for the others, though none of them were all that cryptic... well, except maybe for that one where you need to defy all old-school gaming logic and go left for once, but still. Although, after the end, I do have to wonder where the old lady in the elivator went... that kind of adds to the chill at the end, actually.

But yeah, I really enjoyed this one too. I like seeing games with an artistic feel to them, either in aesthetic or message; and in the case of games like this, both.

 

[ucciolord1]

Brilliant. Pure art.
And really freaking depressing.