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Analogue: A Hate Story, the latest game from Digital: A Love Story and Don't Take It Personally, Babe creator Christine Love, came out a few weeks back. I've finally been able to sit down and explore this dark, sad detective story set on a ghost ship from the 25th century. Here's what I discovered.
You could technically call Analogue: A Hate Story a visual novel, but that would be a little like saying a panther was 'just a cat.' Analogue doesn't so much evolve the largely linear, information drip-feed structure of visual novels as mutate it wildly, chop it up into chunks then offer it up to you in a tin you can pluck the parts out of as you like. It's a detective story first and foremost, with you as the detective. A sort of space-Poirot if you like, but one whose only forms of communication are picking a left or a right answer to someone else's questions, rather than Belgian bon-mots and moustache-stroking.
The tale primarily revolves around two families of Korean extract, each of which was at one point seen as noble bloodlines among the population of indeterminate but apparently vast size on board the colony ship. How does their history of arranged marriages, quests for heirs and inter-familial arguments tie into the fate of the Mugunghwa?
It's not truly a science-fiction piece, however. The death of the Mugunghwa's population is essentially a framing device for an acutely close-up look at a society that believed men are born to rule and women are born to obey. That is not a fictional society: Analogue's gradually-revealed backstory is based upon Korea's five centuries-long Joseon Dynasty, and particularly its shocking oppression of women. On the ship, before everyone died, its female populace were little more than slaves and breeders, with their only meaningful communication conducted via private letters.
Fortunately, the escalations of and experiments with the visual novel form (and indeed Digital's design) make up for this, transforming Analogue into a many-layered onion of a narrative. It is inevitably headed in one overall (yet splintered) direction, whose full story only becomes clear as a result of your own deduction and reasoning, and of multiple playthroughs. Oh, and you even get some well-observed (in its deliberate slowness and frustration) pseudo-Linux terminal action to try and stave off a mid-game disaster.
Analogue is the missing link between visual novels and adventure games, with a touch of RPG-style NPC relationship-juggling thrown in, and while I suspect it's more a glorious aberration than a watershed moment for a genre many gamers have quite understandably struggled to understand the appeal of, it's certainly a great leap forwards for Christine Love. Yes, I do personally question the wisdom of using that visual style, on both a commercial level and in terms of atmosphere, but, putting that aside, Analogue is a sit-up-and-take-notice achievement in storytelling, in interface, in research, in mechanics and in moral ambiguity.
What the title says, so tired of story lines, long cut scenes, dialogue. It's cringe, just let me kill something or whatever. Didn't use to bother me but nowadays I can't filter anything by popular or high rating because everything is "the art is beautiful", "the soundtrack is amazing", "the story is so gripping".
Well how about in your backlog grooming sessions, instead of just reading the acceptance criteria and voting, use examples.
By using examples here, we can usually see how big or small a story is, the idea being to get a story done in close to a week. So the rule of thumb is usually 4 or 5 examples per story.
Maybe you get a story that has 10 examples, well we can split it here. Now we have two stories in the backlog ready to go. If for some reason some managers still need story points, grand we can just make sure all stories are roughly the same size. If each story has roughly 4 examples then pick your favorite number, 3 for example. All stories are then 3 or smaller.
The idea being to focus on delivering the value of story and not wasting time trying to guess points. Adding up the amount of time spent guessing these numbers will show you how much time we are wasting on this exercise. It reminded me of this Dilbert cartoon.
Say a new feature has 10 stories in it, and these ten stories have been groomed using specification by example. We can then say that each story should roughly take a week. Then the feature will be ready to go in roughly 10 weeks.
By getting better at our story sizing (which happens with practice) we can become predictable instead of trying to guess how long something will take.
Give it a go and let me know how you get on.
I have a long and complicated relationship with Duolingo . The hate side, in short, is that I think the way Duolingo models language and thinks/treats language is fundamentally atomistic and inimical to good principles of second language acquisition. The love side is that I actually enjoy and continue to use Duolingo daily, and gain a measurable benefit from it. In this post I want to explore and reflect on these two things in light of recent and long-term experience.
I gave this app to my son to practice his Chinese, the non paid version, just to see how it goes. Initially he did quite enjoy the way it worked, but because of the way it encouraged payment (penalties for incorrect answers ends the study session) he quickly began to hate getting that wrong answer prompt to the point where he was scared to get the incorrect answer and within a few days he hated it.
That said, I also know that so much misunderstanding exists around Kubler-Ross' work. Most people don't know her theory was developed as stages for people who were dying, not those who were grieving. Out of her hundreds of pages of writing, most people only know those five simple: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. From there, they make assumptions, define things themselves, take a guess. I knew if I wanted to hate acceptance (and I did) I needed to know more than just the word.
So, rather than seeing 'happiness' as a state of pleasure, devoid of pain, Hayes says instead that "happiness is living in accord with your values in a way that is more open and accepting of your history as it echoes into the present".
That history for most people, certainly for those of us grieving, is a very mixed bag. It isn't being grateful for that past. It isn't being glad that it happened. Instead, it is acknowledging the reality of that past and accepting that history as part of our wisdom in the present. It is part of who we are.
It is what allows me to create a space that is fully open to my history - to all the losses and the pain that came with them. To all the memories and stories and connections that carry into the present. To the way that pain and loss have shaped who I am.
Blackberries fruit on year-old canes, so if you want to get rid of them, all you have to do is chop them down to the base every year before they fruit. The plants will keep sending out suckers and feelers or whatever, but a vigorous chopping will prevent fruiting and eventually, spreading.
Analogue received mostly above average reviews from critics, but also earned lots of praise for its dark subject matter and how maturely it handled its story. As of December 2012, the game proved to be successful with the moving of 40,000 copies, a number that has only grown since then.
It's currently available on its official site and Steam for $10. On June 29th, 2012, it got a free update that made the Steam version compatible with Steam Cloud (thus allowing achievements) and added two new costumes for *Hyun-ae. In September 26th, 2012, a Korean translation of the game was made available. Love has also released a sequel called Hate Plus on August 19th, 2013, after some Development Hell and unpredicted, unfortunate events like her apartment burning down. At first it was meant to be a paid Downloadable Content package for Analogue, but it ultimately became a full-fledged sequel of its own, with the story involving the investigator uncovering hidden files that detail what caused the societal degeneration of the ship.
- The game is rather unflinching in its depiction of Joseon-era chauvinism and misogyny, and a player can expect to be repeatedly shocked and disturbed by the way women are treated, as well as the perfectly casual way in which most characters describe it.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A while after getting her tongue cut off by her adoptive parents, Hyun-ae decides to upload her brain onto the Mugunghwa's computers and turn off life support, killing everyone, herself included. The Hyun-ae you talk to is a simple copy.
- Would Hurt a Child: The Pale Bride's adoptive father came up with the idea of slicing off her tongue, and convinced his wife to help him.
- You Are the Translated Foreign Word: "Namjon yeobi. Men are honoured, women are abased. If you can only remember one thing, remember this phrase". When you show this to *Mute, she criticizes *Hyun-ae's translation, saying that all it really means is "male superiority."
- You Shouldn't Know This Already: As mentioned under Developer's Foresight, attempting to access admin privileges before a certain point in the game, even with the correct password, will do absolutely nothing.
- Yuri Genre: Not the story in particular, but rather, a set of logs talking about the romance between a noble woman and a courtesan girl hired by her husband. The AIs also don't particularly care about the investigator's gender in their endings, although *Mute, in both a demonstration of her Tsundere nature and the prejudices which were baked into her by her culture, dismisses the possibility of falling in love with a girl quite insistently.
Thirsty Dragon tells the story of how and why China became the most important export market for Bordeaux wine. And why that may well change one day. It tells the story through the eyes of, or more correctly, through the stories told by all the people who have been involved in developing this wine business relationship since the early 1980s.
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