Echo Chamber Recap 134

NONARY GAME IS E-SPORTS!

-For those of you further behind, the "Nonary Game" refers to an experiment from the Zero Escape game series where 9 people are captured and and forced to play a game where they all try to escape a harrowing situation.

While I've only played 999, the first game in the Zero Escape series, the game is still worth a play, as it's filled with clever escape the room puzzles, novel character development and enough junk science to shake a stick at. In a way, it's very similar to the game version of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream".

-MORPHOGENIC FIELDS!!!

-Resident Evil Outbreak did exist, and I remember renting the game, but not progressing very far, since the load times killed the thing. I'd like to see that take on the game again. Left 4 Dead is a comparable game, but L4D is more focused on combat, the early Resident Evil Series were focused on Puzzle solving. Something like that (and my 999 game) is WAY too hard to coordinate online, and AI opponents for something that would be way to complicated.

Good news, though. You can play on Private Servers now!


-I was going to go line by line and show all the escape rooms by where each of us live, but there's a goddamn directory of these things.

-Potluck Simulator 2015 is yet another candidate for the Echo Chamber Game Jam. IMJUSTSAYING.

-There's an article here about the success of the room escape game as a business. While it does address the concerns of a business, (repeat customers, each game can only be played once) but doesn't address how those problems are solved. The puzzles themselves are a great adrenaline rush, and the 999 series add the intrigue and characters to get attached to. But the Room Escape Businesses has all the former, but none of the latter, so there's little reason to go back.

-Jeff, Game Show Addict would be curious to check out the YouTube Channel Buzzr:


Jeff isn't big on "YOUTUBERZ!!", but it's worth a watch and is the closest thing us non-cable havers will have to some classic game shows.

-Also, the JackBox Party Pack is on Steam.

-Press Your Luck Scandal:


-Apperently the "Sonic Shitting In Tails' Mouth" thing is closer to science than we'd expect.


The "hedgehogs rub shit all over themselves" fact was mentioned no less than 100 time in the TBFP Sonic Adventure LP.

-RHYTHM BASTARD GON' GIVE IT TO YA!



-Game Dev Tycoon and Paolo has the right idea. Though I believe it needs an "Asset Flipping" option, and a Jim Sterling Expy.
I think I'm going to kick him a couple bucks for the Patreon, since his LPs keep me going at a long day of work.

-If there was a word to describe "Her Story", I'd say "Deliberate". It's the same word I'd use to describe Silent Hill 2 as well. There is no extra "stuff" for the sake of there being extra stuff, everything in the game is place exactly how the "author" intended it to be. There are queries you type down in Her Story where there's 6 videos, but you can only see the first 5. That 6th video is the one you need to see, and it's written in such a way that eventually you'll loop back there.

The logistics are mind boggling: Every word of dialogue had to be planned out in advance, with the right words being said in the right video, with every bit of dialogue matched to an exact point in the story, and every response broken up in a way that serves both the gameplay, but still feels natural. Damn.

I heard Gone Home is also in the same vein, a short, but well-crafted experience, but Her Story has a biiiit more replay value in finding all the videos.