{ Saturday, January 7, 2006 }
Steven Spielberg, at some point in the recent past, pooh-poohed the emotional power of games, as noted on Pat Kane's site The Play Ethic. And in the comments, this from Alexander Kjerulf:
There are no other people to be found, but during the game, you find a friendly little robot called Floyd (Get it: Floyd the droid). He's at times cute, helpful, funny and annoying.
Towards the end of the game you need a device that's placed in a highly radioactive room. The only solution is to send Floyd in there, getting you the device but killing him in the process.
From the Wikipedia article on Planetfall: "Reaction to Floyd's in-game death was hailed at the time as a telling sign of the emotional power of Infocom's games. Many players, it was widely reported, wept openly at the scene of Floyd's "death". Apparently, it was previously unthinkable that "a simple game" could move people to such a degree."
And remember: This game had no graphics and no sound. What it had was great writing and a good story.
This was great. I'll never forget how, when we shut down the prototype for GNE, people logged in all over the world for what we called The End of the World -- from remote locations and time zones such as Berlin, Australia and the Philippines -- and many people cried. We were really amazed by this, and moved.
The Planetfall comment it led me to Alexander's site Positive Sharing. Alexander, three years ago, had an epiphany that his next task was to make people "Happy at Work" -- a noble undertaking no doubt! which he chronicles in The story so far.
LINK | 10:52 PM | TB
I still miss GNE. Some nights I just need to make paper, and apple pie.
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We used to keep our TRS-80 in the corner of the dining room and I played Zork all the time. I would have to run through the dining room at night because I would literally be gripped with terror at the thought of being eaten by a grue or running into the thief around the corner. All that from a black screen with some lines of text.
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