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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 13:40:07 JST Paul Cantrell

   You like puzzles

   You like bizarre and beautiful things

   You are looking for something to occupy you over the long weekend

   Starseed Pilgrim is one of the greatest video games ever made

   (I will fight you)

   …and it’s only 6 bucks:
   https://droqen.itch.io/starseedpilgrim

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 13:40:59 JST Paul Cantrell

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     I would describe the game, but saying absolutely anything about its rules, its goals, or its trajectory would be a spoiler.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 14:03:39 JST Paul Cantrell

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     OK, I think I can say something useful about it:

     This is a game whose rules and goals are hidden from you, and the long-term narrative arc of the game — the narrative itself — is you figuring out what the rules are. Several times, a new “aha” moment changes your experience of the whole game world, and for me, at least, that narrative experience wasn’t just the frustration-satisfaction cycle of a solving a puzzle. This is a game that made me •feel• a whole lot of somethings.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Nov-2023 16:40:08 JST Paul Cantrell

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     This is one person’s little personal project (with a music collaborator IIRC), and there are few big-budget AAA games that can match its sense of wonder, discovery, and pathos.

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     Exandra (alexbbrown@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 06:13:22 JST Exandra

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     @inthehands purchased

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 06:34:59 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Exandra

     @Alexbbrown
     Hopefully I haven’t led you astray!

     Just a minor hint: you will know when you’ve completed the game. If you’re wondering, you haven’t.