Back for Seconds by RobotParking

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made by RobotParking for LD27 (COMPO)
Bizarro-punk Twine game. Heavily inspired by Porpentine, OH NO PROBLEMS and others. Borrowed liberally from Nicole Shukin's book Animal Capital. Specifically her assertion that the term "rendering" as both mimesis and the act of boiling animal remains to have another "pass" through the market is an apt rubric through which we can examine the ways capitalism extends itself. Players will need to "go back for seconds" 10 times before the game "ends."

This is also my first time working with Twine. Hope you enjoy it, but if you don't, whatever.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 2.56 994
Audio 1.25 976
Fun 2.18 1063
Graphics 1.51 1178
Humor 2.91 233
Innovation 2.65 798
Mood 2.73 553
Theme 2.33 1092

Feedback

gikdew
26. Aug 2013 路 15:06 UTC
really nice!
irl
26. Aug 2013 路 15:09 UTC
Interesting but awful colour scheme that hurt my eyes. Couldn't get very far so not sure how well it fit with the theme. Good to see something that's not your typical game.
馃帳 RobotParking
26. Aug 2013 路 18:49 UTC
Thanks!
chrisamaphone
26. Aug 2013 路 21:14 UTC
i played this while hungry.

welp.
Fabien Por茅e
26. Aug 2013 路 21:52 UTC
The colours aren't awful they are beautiful.
wally2069
26. Aug 2013 路 21:55 UTC
Oh dear, these color choices are difficult to read text
Croze
26. Aug 2013 路 21:57 UTC
Didn't really understand the game...
Feysoura
26. Aug 2013 路 22:04 UTC
what am i playing?
awesome/5
Latcarf
26. Aug 2013 路 22:05 UTC
I have no idea what's going on with this game.
Liz England
27. Aug 2013 路 05:34 UTC
I dig it.

It took me a few minutes to kind of get into the swing of your writing style - it's sharp and abrasive and hyper. Pretty awesome.
withoutpillow
27. Aug 2013 路 09:22 UTC
what a strange world you've created. i really had no idea what was happening in the beginning but as i continued playing i got into the whole atmosphere your writing has. the colours are distracting, and that fits very well with the rest of the game.
Marcellus
27. Aug 2013 路 12:38 UTC
I...
doonay21
27. Aug 2013 路 12:47 UTC
Interesting idea. My eyes hurts a little bit (cause of colors), but I can handle it ;)
Pickens Inc.
27. Aug 2013 路 12:55 UTC
Ah confused! :)
Tainted_Code
27. Aug 2013 路 13:00 UTC
Haha that's awesome, but the colours, ouch D:
Laelien
27. Aug 2013 路 13:05 UTC
That...was... WEIRD. Yet awesome. Yet weird. Yet awesome.
Nizan
27. Aug 2013 路 13:14 UTC
I don't know what-
It's just that-
What is this I don't even-

Everything about this is wrong... but in such a right way. The colours are awful... but are a perfect choice for this piece of poetry.

Your writing is immense. Once you push through the first impressions it really, really grips you something fierce.
Clodial
27. Aug 2013 路 13:17 UTC
Omg, that hurt my eyes but, in a strikingly sensible way. Like, the story could only be displayed with painful colors. It was like I was seeing things. If the game was in other colors, I don't think I would have felt as weird out of it. Nice!
dumasflo
27. Aug 2013 路 13:22 UTC
Nice but, why that pink color ? XD
elementz123
27. Aug 2013 路 13:25 UTC
Some lines were kinda funny, but like others had said, I have no idea whats going on.
autlos
27. Aug 2013 路 13:28 UTC
That colors hurt my eyes. Interesting idea, I laughed ^^.
馃帳 RobotParking
27. Aug 2013 路 13:43 UTC
Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
Subi
27. Aug 2013 路 13:44 UTC
That pink meant I could only last about five minutes. Nice writing though!
Dry Tree
27. Aug 2013 路 13:47 UTC
Interesting :)
Aurel300
27. Aug 2013 路 13:49 UTC
Well that was . . .
DoubleS
27. Aug 2013 路 15:50 UTC
Hurt my eyes with the colours. Confused how this fits with the theme
Diogo Muller
27. Aug 2013 路 16:44 UTC
Yeah, the colors made this lose some points, for me. Interessing, anyway.
Sergey Mohov
27. Aug 2013 路 17:28 UTC
Some really good writing, and I like the color scheme a lot, don't listen to them :P
Jimanzium
27. Aug 2013 路 17:29 UTC
Why the bright pink, why?
esayitch
27. Aug 2013 路 17:35 UTC
This thing is genius on a literary level... screw video game jam this is progressive fiction (is that a thing? it ought to be) jam... color scheme is brilliant, story is brilliant, interpretation of the theme (Time? What does time have to do with 10 seconds?) is... brilliant.

I'm in love.
angrygeometry
27. Aug 2013 路 18:39 UTC
i'm a huge advocate and admirer of both piss and filth. great twine game.
madk
27. Aug 2013 路 19:45 UTC
chrisamaphone: That's fucking nothing. I was eating while I went into this thing.

It's awful. RobotParking: YOU'RE awful. I kinda like it.
dancingflame
27. Aug 2013 路 19:46 UTC
Creative text adventure!! Nice use of the hyperlinks :)
Ritzblues783
27. Aug 2013 路 21:17 UTC
I'm so confused... I don't even know where to start. Very... creative? It's lost on me though...
truiton
27. Aug 2013 路 21:19 UTC
Nice idea, I love text adventure :)
But yeah, the colors hurt the eyes :D
panurge
27. Aug 2013 路 22:32 UTC
Like an unholy mash-up of Burroughs and Jeff Noon, I really enjoyed reading this. The colour scheme lingers in the retina though... :)
namrog84
27. Aug 2013 路 23:12 UTC
Ow my eyes. the color was a bit much. interesting approach though.

I enjoyed it though. Keep up the good work!
patrickgh3
28. Aug 2013 路 00:47 UTC
Any deeper meaning is lost on me, but it was a blast to play.
OldPeculier
28. Aug 2013 路 00:58 UTC
Not my cup of tea. And boy that hot pink did a number on my eyes.
Kragnir
28. Aug 2013 路 01:34 UTC
Interesting but a bit too extreme in some cases.
Diptoman
28. Aug 2013 路 10:30 UTC
I have no idea what I played through, but it was AWESOME! XD
I didn't like the background color, it kinda burned my eyes.

One of the more interesting and different entries in this LD. :D
Delca
28. Aug 2013 路 10:32 UTC
As a non-native English speaker, I sometimes struggled with some words, and couldn't exactly see how much the theme was involved in this. But that was nonetheless fun to read.
MatrixBai
28. Aug 2013 路 12:45 UTC
My eyes.
Sebastian
28. Aug 2013 路 14:25 UTC
Interesting interpretation of '10 seconds' and an even more interesting story!
TobiasW
28. Aug 2013 路 15:26 UTC
Yo RobotParking. Your game feels like somebody just barged into my house, threw up on my floor and I LIKED IT. Word.

I definitely see Porpentine influence there.


@madk: Your comment made me laugh.
馃帳 RobotParking
28. Aug 2013 路 18:12 UTC
THANKS FOR PLAYING/COMMENTING. COULD KISS YOU ALL ON THE DANG MOUTH.
Crazi456
28. Aug 2013 路 21:19 UTC
Nice change of paced compared to most entries I've been playing. Colors were kind of blinding. Nice work!
65C816
28. Aug 2013 路 21:39 UTC
Great entry, and really good idea, but...the color burnt my eyes.
Nerlin
29. Aug 2013 路 00:09 UTC
Background is terrible. =|
PaperBlurt
29. Aug 2013 路 15:11 UTC
I like pink too.
mboaj
29. Aug 2013 路 17:12 UTC
Wow so much purple :)
cafeine
29. Aug 2013 路 18:45 UTC
Amazing. Videogames often lack intelligent discourse, grindcore and pink backgrounds, thank you for providing all three of them.
Pinktreeleaf
29. Aug 2013 路 20:34 UTC
So i see different colors now. Also my brain does not compute. Is this an absurdest movement in games? I don't quite understand, but i respect.
iiechapman
30. Aug 2013 路 03:33 UTC
Very different, and in your face ,much like the pink color!
MegaMasterX
30. Aug 2013 路 12:29 UTC
I was ROLLING. Nicely done hahahaha.
Christina Nordlander
30. Aug 2013 路 21:26 UTC
Very, very Porpentinesque, this, almost enough so as to be a parody. (I have no idea whether I would have believed it was made by her if I hadn't seen the author's name.) Cool subversion of the theme, very good writing (again, if you like Porpentine's style), and very good Twine work. I always like to see Twine games that pose a bit of a challenge, and this one did.

I could have lived without the more disgusting bits, but that's a taste thing (oh gods, Chris, don't think about "taste" in this context) and not related to the quality of your work. Very well written and coded.
Christina Nordlander
30. Aug 2013 路 22:47 UTC
Also, grammar nitpick: "put pay to" should be "put paid to".
drkrunk
30. Aug 2013 路 22:50 UTC
Interesting. I also didn't really like the bright colored background, it was a little distracting.
infernet89
01. Sep 2013 路 10:58 UTC
Pink background and white text? OMG, MY EYES!
Another problem with that is that there are so many slang-like expression.. Since English is not my native language, i ended with the translator opened in another tab to understand what's going on.. And the crazy and confusing storyline didn't help at all. Sorry to be so negative, this was my experience.
Oh, but a storygame kind of game is very original, that's a positive fact!
XaiZil
01. Sep 2013 路 16:22 UTC
Ehhh not too much gameplay in it
Zap
02. Sep 2013 路 04:57 UTC
A Twine adventure! Awesome!
<3 Porpentine (I admit, I was very dismissive of interactive fiction until I read Propentine)

I love how coarse this is and how it forces you to be such an offensive character. Well written and a unique experience.

The pink was a bit hurty after a while, and when I looked away everything looked green *o*
but it fit well with the abusiveness of the game itself.

Good length and sweet interpretation of the theme!
Martin_Monosys
02. Sep 2013 路 17:34 UTC
Eh, my eyes hurt now, the white background looks kinda blue...
Cute game, one of the more enjoyable twine games I played. Thing is, twine games tend to tell a story , and the coices you make during that story are generally irrelevant for it's outcome. Once we find a way to fix this, it's perfect! ;)
Andrew Shouldice
02. Sep 2013 路 17:35 UTC
Auuuuug guugh guugh 5/5
Raiyumi
02. Sep 2013 路 21:18 UTC
interesting game, but would've liked a different color scheme.
DaanVanYperen
04. Sep 2013 路 13:01 UTC
This hurts my brain. Fuchsia!
Antidote
05. Sep 2013 路 15:36 UTC
Interesting story, but the background colour is too bright.
foumart
05. Sep 2013 路 20:10 UTC
EXTRAORDINARY! this was like Vogon story mixed with alot of sweet Gore-Grind passages that are certainly scourging one's brain enought with a pink/viollet ribbon.. uh.:x the game was awesome, really!
Sascha
06. Sep 2013 路 00:56 UTC
+1 for the title/interpretation of the theme :)
motty
10. Sep 2013 路 22:54 UTC
Wow.

I'm not sure what just happened. I'm not sure whether I liked it or not. I don't think I'll be going back for seconds this time around.

But this was good. Thank you.
garygreen
12. Sep 2013 路 19:08 UTC
That was disturbing, but also fantastic in it's own warped way. I couldn't finish it though... too full. ;-) Seriously though, I just ended up going round in a loop not knowing which way to go. I think my brain was too frazzled from it.