The Superlatives: Shattered Worlds — Hunt a killer and save the solar system!

[Mary_Duffy]

@E_RedMark

rushed and half baked .

Rent-a-Vice — What doesn’t kill you…kills someone else

I’m going to be a little grumpy about the word “rushed” for a minute. Bear with me. You, as a player feel rushed in a given scene. Or may feel the game is short, and that’s a semi-fair criticism. It’s 150,000 words. But it’s not short and rushed. Our games are supposed to have multiple things you can pursue, and they do that in games as short as 135,000 words or as long as 600,000 words. We’ve released games that are four times as long as Rent-a-Vice. (Maybe, fair warning: if you see a game i…

@Mary_Duffy

But in general I want to dispense with the notion that any of our games are rushed in terms of how fast they are written/edited. Or the criticism that this is a “draft” not a game. It’s a game. You don’t have to like how deeply the author went into things, or you may wish it were longer, but it took over a year to write and edit, it’s longer than most novels, and it’s designed to be replayable, so you can get different outcomes and do different things.