Deadend
03-21-2009, 02:41 PM
Read, then play (http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2009/02/freeware_game_pick_opera_omnia.html)
It's a freeware game that is styled after Uplink, where you play as a historian using population migration and a timeline to figure the movements of people in history. The controls and gameplay mechanic were painful to wrap my head around at first, but after a few levels, I was caught up in the game and wanted to see the next and the next stage.
the bit where you prove The Others in fact just sprang into existence out of nothing and then proceeded to be horrible is kinda fucked up propaganda based around using rounding numbers in the software calculation.
The whole idea of the game, using nominally scientific methods to fake up evidence and help incite genocide is creepy as hell.
In short... this game is kinda awesome and manages to be original, but not just for the sake of originality.
It's a freeware game that is styled after Uplink, where you play as a historian using population migration and a timeline to figure the movements of people in history. The controls and gameplay mechanic were painful to wrap my head around at first, but after a few levels, I was caught up in the game and wanted to see the next and the next stage.
the bit where you prove The Others in fact just sprang into existence out of nothing and then proceeded to be horrible is kinda fucked up propaganda based around using rounding numbers in the software calculation.
The whole idea of the game, using nominally scientific methods to fake up evidence and help incite genocide is creepy as hell.
In short... this game is kinda awesome and manages to be original, but not just for the sake of originality.