Secrets Agent
Notes:
- An old name appears on the end screen, I go by Marina now
- Works best in Google Chrome
- 5-10 minutes
- Requires sound, headphones will make you feel more like a Secrets Agent
- Use the arrow keys to move
- You cannot die
- Made using Construct 2 Free Edition
- SFX via freeSFX
- Scroll down for more thoughts
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Influences and Thoughts:
Secrets Agent was made pretty loosely and improvisationally. It's interesting for me to think about some of the influences on my thinking that affected aspects of it.
- This article about Street Wars by Leigh Alexander. In particular, the thematic limitations of classical game design's emphasis on perfectly logical/master-able (very simplified) systems. "Video games will always protect us from the truth: how smart we are not."
- This Embed With Nina Freeman by Cara Ellison. Thoughts about vignette games, personal storytelling, voice over.
- Porpentine's videos. I really really like these. Vocal communication feels to me like the most physical form of internet communication. Vocal improvisation is a nice way to feel out the cultural building blocks that affect you and the ways you want to subvert them?
- GameFAQs. Sometimes strangeness, sometimes intimacy, of being told how to beat a video game by a stranger.
- Jewel Chase. A really old "Microsoft Puzzle Collection" game that may have come with our computer? Inspired some of the premise and character design.
