Ectocomp reviews

[Merk]

The Profile

[spoiler]

@maga

I was thinking that you’d only have the commentary start on the second play-through, and maybe get more detailed over subsequent playthroughs.

You’re not far off from the original original idea. For this game, I pulled an idea from my “ideas.txt” (which, not too long ago, I actually posted here):

<a class=“postlink-local” href="Game Ideas & Titles

• The Profile – A game that begins kind of plain/generic, where a killer is
  in a house, about to kill some woman who’s sleeping in bed. Most objects
  get a “that’s not important” message. Twist is, it’s a crime re-enactment,
  being theorized by the police detectives in a meeting. They’re discussing
  “the profile” of the killer, and that’s how the game began. But, in each
  successive play-through, some of the items become important.
  – February 13th, 2006.

There’s an abundance of missed potential here, yeah. Among the reasons I chose it, though, is that it had a built-in explanation for sparse implementation, and having decided to enter it on the last day after finding out that the deadline was extended, I wanted something that was already at least partially thought out.[/spoiler]