User:Thijshijsijsjss/Notes on SI23/Electrifying

Screenshot of Electrifying gameplay

Electrifying is a game made by User:Senka and User:Thijshijsijsjss from editorial group ((in)ter)dependence during SI23: Quilting_infrastructures in two hour-long 'gamejam sessions'. It is a tiny escape room game played in your terminal of choice.

• All game files can be found in this Git repo.

Usage

Electrifying can be downloaded and played entirely through your terminal interface by following these steps:

1. Navigate to the directory in which you want the game to reside
2. Run git clone https://git.xpub.nl/thijsoid/Electrifying.git (or the SSH alternative) (*)
3. Run cat README.md
4. As the README file suggest, it is encouraged to add a termporary alias by running alias look='cat' (**)

(*) Alternatively, the gamefiles can be downloaded and manually unzipped directly from Gitea.

(**) Note that this alias will last only for this terminal session.

Motivation

We played Noah Veltman's The Command Line Murders in class, and were promted to create a terminal game within one hour. We set three goals for ourselves:

1. explore how to achieve a (minimal) sense of immersion through a terminal interface
2. make it simple (i.e. a limited set of actions)
3. make it polished (or the 1-hour equivalent of that)

Imagery

Screenshot from Electrifying gameplay