The Sadness of Rocky Barbato by PaperBlurt
The Sadness of Rocky Barbato is about an ex porn star.
An OLD porn star, not having the same youthful stamina anymore.
He looks back at his life and sees that he's missing something, that he's been focusing on the surface, instead of looking beneath it - seeing what really matters.
But this drives him a bit crazy unfortunately.
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Made in Twine and I used Photoshop for all graphics.
Wanted to use graphics, animations and colors as I feel that gives Interactive Fiction games an extra kick, and I really like working with the design portion of a Twine game...
Hope you enjoy it!
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UPDATE 28/4:
Thanks to eldog who spotted a typo!
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UPDATE 29/4:
Thanks to Crowbeak who spotted a typo!
I removed an "a".
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UPDATE 29/4:
Real BIG thanks to Gazok for extensive proofreading!
(as I'm not a native english speaker, some errors and typos manage to slip me by)
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UPDATE 4/5:
Tweaked the timings a bit, went from 6 seconds to 5 seconds on one part (!)
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UPDATE 7/5:
Got an e-mail from Phrostylicious who had spotted yet another typo (man I suck at proofreading!)
An OLD porn star, not having the same youthful stamina anymore.
He looks back at his life and sees that he's missing something, that he's been focusing on the surface, instead of looking beneath it - seeing what really matters.
But this drives him a bit crazy unfortunately.
- - - -
Made in Twine and I used Photoshop for all graphics.
Wanted to use graphics, animations and colors as I feel that gives Interactive Fiction games an extra kick, and I really like working with the design portion of a Twine game...
Hope you enjoy it!
- - - -
UPDATE 28/4:
Thanks to eldog who spotted a typo!
- - - -
UPDATE 29/4:
Thanks to Crowbeak who spotted a typo!
I removed an "a".
- - - -
UPDATE 29/4:
Real BIG thanks to Gazok for extensive proofreading!
(as I'm not a native english speaker, some errors and typos manage to slip me by)
- - - -
UPDATE 4/5:
Tweaked the timings a bit, went from 6 seconds to 5 seconds on one part (!)
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UPDATE 7/5:
Got an e-mail from Phrostylicious who had spotted yet another typo (man I suck at proofreading!)
| play online | http://rocky.paperblurt.com |
| source code | http://rocky.paperblurt.com/Rocky_Barbato_Source_Code.txt |
| other fun stuff | http://www.paperblurt.com |
| https://twitter.com/paperblurt | |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=26530 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.21 | 517 |
| Audio | 1.79 | 962 |
| Fun | 2.98 | 587 |
| Graphics | 2.97 | 676 |
| Humor | 3.60 | 82 |
| Innovation | 3.14 | 498 |
| Mood | 3.42 | 245 |
| Theme | 2.88 | 860 |
Great SMS scene.
You've got a "hear" instead of a "here" in there, but that is me just being a smelly spelly.
rylgh: The font is from Google Web Fonts, Trade Winds and Metamorphous is used for Rectum Rangers :)
Really great use of theme, now I know a lot more about retired porn stars.
Love the overall aesthetics!
So much enjoyment from such minimalistic delivery.
Also the typos add to the fun. Leave them in man.
I like these sort of choose-your-way games.
I had trouble identifying with the first part, being female, but it was interesting. Lots of good storytelling techniques used.
Its pretty cool that you can replay parts of the game by changing the URL.
The ending was a bit unexpected!
http://youtu.be/JHNjbQTDBuQ
Love the God on cellphone ;p~
The piano intro song kicked in just as I clicked onto the highway.
The game is fantastic. Your use of colour is perfect and the pacing is brilliant. Every time I play one of your games I think I really want to make something like this but I just don't have the skills!
At http://rocky.paperblurt.com/#1l.3.p.a.b.c , "resides" "needs" and "hits" shouldn't have those 's's.
http://rocky.paperblurt.com/#1l.3.p.a.b.c.t.1q.f.c.1g should be "fridge has been"
http://rocky.paperblurt.com/#1l.3.p.a.b.c.t.1q.f.c.1g.s.c.1p.o.7.1m "lived has given", "elderly existence"
http://rocky.paperblurt.com/#1l.3.p.a.b.c.t.1q.f.c.1g.s.c.1p.o.7.1m.1f.1e.5.1e "just not to oblige you"
As for the rest of the game, "Schindler's Fist."
That is all.
But seriously, I really liked a lot of the jokes.
Definitely one of your best games. (I may have enjoyed "Alone/Awake" more, but that's because I'm more of a science fiction fan. This story has better visuals, though.)
An interesting interactive story.
Good job on making it and submitting to the compo !
This was, in turns, bizarre, darkly comic, disturbing, surreal, pathos-inducing, and probably more adjectives that I haven't learned yet. :D I agree with the person who saw similarities with this and Chuck Palahniuk's work, and I sensed a bit of Hunter S. Thompson in there too in the way the story itself seemed to go off-road and make a dash for the border (probably to bat country). I'm just glad I'm came along for the ride! :)
synd att du inte kunde spela mitt spel, det blev ju lite annorlunda den här gången, hade ont om tid, en bra idé som inte funkade i Twine, och en kompis som kan programmera. men det blir säkert nya Twine-spel i framtiden.
ditt spelade jag däremot, och det är jag glad för! du har verkligen lyckats få till nya sätt att använda programmet på som känns fräscha och intressanta och bidrar till upplevelsen. du är dessutom lyckats väldigt bra med humorn här, speciellt tajmingen är toppen. bra jobbat!