The Archivist and the Revolution: updates and a post-mortem [Music: 2023-09-07]

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The post-competition release is finally here! The new content amounts to around 20k words of text.

Changes:

  • Many new DNA datasets to decode, especially in the post-revolution categories.
  • Dream/memory/flashback scenes from Em’s previous life with K- and A-.
  • Expanded later relationship scenes with A-.
  • Expanded mutual aid scenes.
  • Lots of edits for language, style, and structure.
  • Added an autosave feature, which saves at each new scene. Open the save/load window to load autosaves.

Total word count: ~62k

I’ve also written a postmortem.

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62k IS a lot pf text to enjoy, thanks a lot!

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…and maybe there will be another update soon. I’ve just emailed Autumn a link to the music files she selected as one of the prizes in the comp. Whether she’ll want to add them to the game is up to her, but I had fun doing the music.

If you want to hear the music I did, you can check it out on my blog, at Game Changes | Jim Aikin's Oblong Blob.

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The game has music now (thanks to Jim Aikin as seen above): The Music Update - The Archivist and the Revolution by Autumn Chen

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And congrats on an IGF Honorable Mention for Narrative!

https://igf.com/article/visai-games-venba-leads-finalists-2024-igf-awards

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