Indie PC game 'Passage'

[red lobster51]

I just played this little 5 minute PC game a few hours ago and after reflecting on it, i realised that despite its simplicity, it acheives one thing, fundemental to most games, better than most games.

So please take 5 mins of your precious time to have your perspective on one part of games changed forever.

Passage:

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/

Supplementary reading (FINISH FIRST):

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/statement.html

Click Here

And I want to hear no moaning about the graphics, they work!

ENJOY!

[Paratrooper]

Seeing as you linked it to me, I am one, if the only other who can give an opinion on this game. And wow. This is just so deep its ubelievable. I implore every single one of you to stop and play this game. Then reflect.

[User removed]

Passage is indeed a terrifically poignant 'thing-to-do'. The music made my eyes sad. Whilst thinking about the silliness of the author in presuming that everyone will get a female/long-haired person, she/it died! A truly shocking moment, I hadn't expected it at all. One criticism I can develop of it is this: I would've thought as one progresses through life, they'd be more 'skilled' in seeing what is to come. Walking into the obstructions as an old man shouldn't have happened, his experience of his life would've been to waste. However, one can interpret it differently. The path behind the character extends as their history does.

[tolgakong91]

Quite cool. Not really a game, more an idea presented in interactive form.
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[red lobster51]

[gofthick]

I completed it with only two casualties.
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[Nico_Runaway]

It doesn't work for me It keeps crashing

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[Shaun2005]

Support todays Indie Developers because its todays Indie developers that are tomrrows mainstream game makers

And this game is fun *Stamps with approval*
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[red lobster51]

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[Nico_Runaway]

I just watched a playthrough on youtube and it seems pretty naff. You walk around a bit dodging things, then you die.

[Turkey Toad]

Just downloading it now.

It works on Mac, which is a nice bonus

[Kira773]

I know I didnt play this properly besides from not getting the girl, I just went straight up and held right

[Donal]

It's art, but not a game. A game has to be fun (or attempts to be if you regard SEGA's current state). It's more of a piece of interactive software.

[SteveMega]

I see a small pixellated man, a small pixellated woman, and some blurry crap I can't make out.

So I just hold right?
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[red lobster51]

Damn I made this thread a long time ago.

It's pretty cool still, but I would now agree with Donal, though it does demonstrate what games are capable of as an artistic medium.

[Donal]

[tomrutters]

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Thought it was dire, I'd rather buy Carnival Games or Imagine: Crack Dealing.

If you want something to move you, listen to music or read a book.
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[Kd King]

Doesn't work for me. Sounds rubbish though.
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[Bcoolbyte]

I wouldn't say it's a game per se, more like interactive art. Which is, in my opinion, the best kind of art.

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