games with non-Western-based worlds?
Yoon Ha Lee
asked if I could recommend any games that have settings that are non-
Western. To my great embarrassment, I wasn't able to think of much.
I admit I would like to play such games myself. I'm willing to poke
at Baf's Guide, but the only really useful Genre category was Fantasy
> Eastern. Do folks have recommendations offhand that they would be
willing to share? It would also be helpful if you could say a little
about the game, especially with regard to what exactly it does for a
setting (if not spoilery) and how difficult the puzzles are.
Thank you very much!
YHL
Taleslinger
very enjoyable.
Reiko
Um. My first thought was your own Moonlit Tower, actually (before I
saw the author line of the post). But I think there was a comp game in
the last couple of years that had a similar flavor as that, although
I've forgotten the name now. All I remember is a puzzle set by a lake
with a crane and possibly a frog. Maybe someone else remembers that
game?
If by non-Western, you don't necessarily mean Asian, then there are a
couple of good games with Slavic settings. One of the best is the
Firebird, based on an old Russian fairy tale. The puzzles aren't too
difficult for the most part, although there are a couple of places
where they aren't very intuitive, and you can miss an important item
or two in one place if you don't repeat an action enough. The writing
and story are very good though, and there are a lot of rather amusing
variations on the ending that you can cause.
~Reiko
Daphne Brinkerhoff
> On Oct 16, 1:34 am, Yoon Ha Lee <requies...@cityofveils.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello! I have a friend who is just dipping her toes into IF, and she
> > asked if I could recommend any games that have settings that are non-
> > Western.
> Um. My first thought was your own Moonlit Tower, actually (before I
> saw the author line of the post). But I think there was a comp game in
> the last couple of years that had a similar flavor as that, although
> I've forgotten the name now. All I remember is a puzzle set by a lake
> with a crane and possibly a frog. Maybe someone else remembers that
> game?
I think that was _Mingsheng_, from IF Comp 2004.
_Buried in Shoes_ would qualify too, I guess.
--
Daphne
Richard Bos
> Hello! I have a friend who is just dipping her toes into IF, and she
> asked if I could recommend any games that have settings that are non-
> Western.
Depends on what you count as "Western". There was a game in the Spring
Thing of 2005, Bolivia By Night, which was (surprisingly...) set in
Bolivia. Asia it ain't, but at least it's not a bog-standard European/
USAnian setting.
Richard
Reiko
> I think that was _Mingsheng_, from IF Comp 2004.
>
> _Buried in Shoes_ would qualify too, I guess.
>
> --
> Daphne
That's right, I was thinking of _Mingsheng_. (My memory for comp games
apparently goes back further than I thought.) There was another game
last year, _The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom_, which was
Asian-themed, but I can't really recommend it, since I couldn't get
past the first room.