A Death in Hyperspace by Stewart C. Baker et al.
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Content warning: blinking text; additional content notes listed in game
Science fiction, murder mystery • One hour • Choice-based • Twine
The title immediately implies a death in a science fiction environment. This is immediately supported by the tags, which state a science fiction murder mystery. I think there’s a game I played about traversing a red-text-colored ship (as well as some other color-themed dreamy environments, one of which involved a spade?), and the title reminded me of that. Maybe it was the red/blood correlation.
The game probably takes place on some sort of ship travelling through space at high speeds, possibly time travelling. Actually, time travelling would be a cool murder mystery. While you’re jumping the timeline, everyone on the ship goes with you, so whatever information you get is from outside of the ship (radio comms?). Could be an interesting game idea.
The blinking text is almost certainly used as some sort of computer interface, like the blinking line cursor I’m staring at right now while typing this draft. It could also be used for an alert (WARNING: OXYGEN LEVELS DEPLETING). Or maybe a little ASCII robot blinks at you.
little ASCII robot
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( )
|>|
__/===\__
//| o=o |\\
<] | o=o | [>
\=====/
/ / | \ \
<_________>
I wonder how comedic this game will be, since science fiction settings often lean very political and dark. But with a little blinking robot buddy and time travel, what could go wrong? (Everything. Everything goes wrong.)
TLDR: time travel and little ASCII robot buddies