IF Review: 'Switcheroo'
Right now the annual IF Competition is going on, with an unusually high number of games this year. So much so that, worried about the corresponding burden on judges writing reviews, Emily Short asked some people who don't usually write IF reviews (or haven't recently) to review some. I asked her if there was a game she thought I might be uniquely suited for, and it turned out there was a game ('Switcheroo') about a foster kid! So, naturally, I was intrigued.
The upshot is that I played the game, found it kind of clunky but sweet, and ultimately very insightful about what it means to be a foster child who might have found an adoptive family. The full review is up at:
https://emshort.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/if-comp-2015-guest-post-lucian-smith-on-switcheroo/
If you want to play the game itself (and it's not at all a puzzle game--the basic format is a 'choice' game, where you select from a few options and click which one you want, and there are no wrong choices, as far as I could tell), you can get play it online at the ifcomp site: Switcheroo.
Thanks for the heads-up and the prompt, Emily!
The upshot is that I played the game, found it kind of clunky but sweet, and ultimately very insightful about what it means to be a foster child who might have found an adoptive family. The full review is up at:
https://emshort.wordpress.com/2015/10/27/if-comp-2015-guest-post-lucian-smith-on-switcheroo/
If you want to play the game itself (and it's not at all a puzzle game--the basic format is a 'choice' game, where you select from a few options and click which one you want, and there are no wrong choices, as far as I could tell), you can get play it online at the ifcomp site: Switcheroo.
Thanks for the heads-up and the prompt, Emily!