There is a writing technique called "cut-up" in which text is broken down into small parts and then rearranged into new text in some random way. Cut-up originates from Dadaism and is used by artists that push the boundaries, such as William Burroughs and David Bowie. Sometimes referred to as endless writing, this means that opportunities are involved in the creative process. Alea It's a Latin dice game.
In a sense, most video game authors use segmentation techniques by default-even if they are trying to build a linear narrative. In addition to scripts, they also build a world and storyline using a huge database of NPC bark, flavored text, knowledge excerpts, and branch conversations. Depending on the game design, it may not be possible to tell players when and in what order they encountered these things, or if they did not know if they encountered them at all. That's where the element of opportunity appears.
Lying comment
- Developer: Sam Barlow and the Angry Bee
- announcer: Annapurna Interaction
- Platform: Reviews on Mac
- Availability: August 23 on PC, Mac and iOS devices
Sam Barlow, the writer and designer of "Her Story" (now Telling Lies), is doing more deliberate things, and he has responded positively to this quirk of the media through interactive fiction experiments. In both games, movies made by Barlow's script are split into dozens, perhaps hundreds of shorts, and players can then search for them using a conversation keyword like a database. Theoretically, clips can be viewed in any order. You may stumble upon this ending on your first search.
But the effect Barlow pursued was not a surrealistic collage. These are confusing thrillers in which players are played as detectives to dig into the truth. Here's the traditional narrative journey-just you don't have a map.
In "Her Story", the video archive you are searching for has collected a series of police interviews on a single subject. Telling lies is more ambitious. The files are larger and the sources are more suspicious, a mix of secret surveillance video and intercepted video calls. There are four main roles and multiple auxiliary roles.
Revealing almost everything about Telling Lies' plot, including the character's location and name, would be a disruptor, as they are likely to be key search terms. There is a woman played by Herry and Catch Fire. She is a doctor, has a young daughter, and sees chatting with her partner. Alexandra Shipp (the storm in a recent X-Men movie) plays a young, idealistic woman who works in a record store and seems to be falling into a new relationship. A cam girl is trading online, played by Angela Sarafayan (he experienced an unforgettable twist in the first season of Western World). Logan Marshall Green (Prometheus) plays a handsome man who seems to live a double life.
Another important role you play. An introductory video shows a woman getting off the car, entering an apartment and sitting in front of a laptop. That is the computer you are operating, and you can always see her face faintly reflected on the screen. This is an ingenious technique that is both detachable and immersive. Who is she and what does she have to do with these other people? This is just one of the connections Telling Lies wants you to make. A note left on the table explained the file and hinted that she only had too much time to browse through it before being "detained." She enters the word "love" and returns to the first search. The rest is up to you.