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The music is so fitting, so peaceful too. makes you think about the things you usually ignore, especially the little things.
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Somewhere in the middle of the game you read this:
"011101000110100001101001011100110010000001101001011100110010000001100001001000000110010001110010011001010110000101101101"
Which can be translated from binary to text (just google "binary to text") and means "This is a dream", which makes me believe xxcolbyxx` version of the story is quite accurate. The AI is struggling to end this so called madness. VERY nice game. I can`t emphasize this enough with words alone. Saying its the best flash game I`ve played wouldn`t be too much.
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Anybody else have the screen size load wrong? I keep reloading but it's cutting off the bottom and right side of the screen, I can't read the end of sentences, or turn right...
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This wasn't just another escape game to me. It was a game that made you think. Think about humanity. Think about life. Think about yourself. It makes you reflect on the reality of things. Even, as the creator said, it was still imperfect, in its own way it was. Good job Jonas, have a fruitful life and journey within yourself to create works of art like this for future generations.
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"I can imagine what it is to die, with great detail. I have multiplied millions of times," was what really sent shivers down my spine. I agree that the stopped clock and the hourglass with one grain of sand in the top mean that you are the SDGS moving in suspended time. This makes even more sense becasue turning yourself off would prevent war, but kill you, leading to all the messages on the walls as you debated scuicide with yourself (The notes left from the researchers are meant to encourage you.)
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I have a theroy. You're are the A.I/SDGS (the reason why the base is there is to create the
A.I) In (A a dream or (B suspened in time. (notice the clock and hourglass) And the A.I is
trying to prevent the launch of nuclear weapons called Project Crusade. So it was trying to
prevent but the millitary shuts down the A.I to manual mode. The A.I in suspended amnation
tries to (A Shut its self compleatly on. (B Turn it self off. I think (B if the A.I whoud shut it self
off disableing all weapons it whoud be simply dead thats why you see the light at the end. The
computers might be the A.I agruing with its self agrubley it might be to human but possably the
computer has a sence of primary language or a imagantion. Over all 5/5 plus favorte its a strange
and wonderful game acutaly exsitsing before the escape the (insert place here). Also sorry for my
english.
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Pretty good but the problem with writing for a game like this is that the writer is unable to transcend his/her own humanity for the AI bits.
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This game was great in about every way possible, except the music there's nothing worse than trying to enjoy a perfect game with some guy trying to yodel.
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This game is amazing. Never before have I cried to a Point and Click game. The story is brilliant, and the characters are well-written. This game holds so many truths, it's not even funny. so many of these people should take to heart. This is now my favorite game of all. It ranks up there with the Submachine series, though this one certainly delivers it's message a hell of a lot more blatantly. I absolutely LOVE games that are made to make us question ourselves, and this game does just that. I have ideas on who/what the "player" is, and what the game represents. But I'm going to let the other players make up their own ideas. In any case, GREAT game, that I honestly think everyone should play.
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i get it, the madness is war, and obviously the endless ocean is imagination. great music well thought out, 5/5 well done
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It was great, but the ending let me hanging a bit more than I like. I can't decide if this is a good thing or not. It makes me think, which is nifty.
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It's a bit of a letdown to have such a limited soundtrack to such an epic game. The quality of the plot is well above most other adventure games.
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011101000110100001101001011100110010000001101001011100110010000001100001001000000110010001110010011001010110000101101101=This is a dream
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Best. Game. Ever. Nothing I have ever played before was compared to this. I am beginning to think that nothing ever will.
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I am pretty sure the main character is the computer system itself, freeing itself from the confines of the prison the military made for it. But A God Am I.
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This game was so beautiful. Really had me thinking XD It took me a while to figure out the "combine" thing, but otherwise it wasn't so hard that i was frustrated, but i could focus on enjoying the story
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Oh! And don't miss the 'Afterword' option after you reach the ending... it will answer many, if perhaps not all, of the questions you still have...
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Incredible game. Don't be put off by the monochrome graphics; there's so much more here than meets the eye. Some screens could have stood to be less dark, but since the cursor changes over hotspots, that was at most a minor annoyance. I only needed the walkthrough at all because it wasn't obvious to me that I could slide and otherwise reposition character strings in Code Recognition mode. Piecing together the story was an adventure in itself. My only regret is that Kong won't let me give this game a rating higher than five stars!
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Reminds me of the submachine series. Only thing I didn't like is the amount of text. I read novels for that, I don't come to kongregate.
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Excellent game. While I realize that the monochromatic and sparseness of the environment adds to the bleak atmosphere, a little more door recognizability would be nice. So many of them are the same, I kept wandering around trying to find where I was supposed to go. ;) Still, that's just a very, very small thing. Incredibly written, very surreal. I enjoyed playing it and would like to see more like this from you. 5/5
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As a programmer, the excerpt from the so-called book "The Spirituality of Programming" by Jerry Payne blew my mind out of my head and all across my wall.
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great game, the puzzles werent that hard, but the idea of scanning for codes is a good one. i liked it veeery much =) and one xtra point that its written in germany =)
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Everytime I started to put together the big password, all of my items and passwords dissappeared from my inventory. In the end, I had to consult the walkthrough for the codes.
It was a great game otherwise.
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Hmm, aparently the game is intentionally as dark as a monkey's ar..
That makes it unplayable, and i really don't see the point in being unable to see anything. Sad, because the game looked interesting. Being blinded by the programmer does *not* constitute atmosphere in my view.
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Does anyone else have the problem, that everything is so dark it's next to inisible?
Could that be a flashplayer 10 problem?
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I would like hints without the walk through. If I need a little push with just the passwords, or where to go with what, it would be nice to have that instead of risking spoilers. Still a nice game though.
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finished the game, and what a game at that 5/5, and I usually hate "point & click" adventures. But this is just amazing!
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by far the best game on kongregate, in my opinion. it wasn't too hard, but it was challenging nonetheless. I would love to see more of this.
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What a truly beautiful game.
The voice adds perfect ambiance, and the story kept me wanting to discover more the whole game.
Wish there were more games done this well.
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That was beautiful. 5+♥. I wish I could have met SGDS, but maybe there was a good reason I couldn't. [Watch Serial Experiments Lain! The Infinite Ocean reminds me of it, though they're very different also.]
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It's nice to finally see a Flash version of this game. (I KNOW this was a standalone freeware game.) Also.. from what I can tell.. the player takes the role of an AI in some sort of simulated virtual world that has descended into rampancy after some kind of catastrophe that isolates it from its creators (I'm under the impression that it's a nuclear war of some sort, due to the references to madness, light, burning, and fire.) I'm seeing some parallels to the role of Durandal in the Marathon series by Bungie, as well as the setting of the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury. And I'm not gonna say something like "this game is deep" or "thought-provoking." It's more than that. It's infinite. (5/5 and faved, plus I'm gonna tell all my friends about it... More people need to play this game. There is not a single flaw [Okay, I take that back, it would have been better without music and instead a subtle eerie ambiance on the edge of the mind....])