Sleep Is Death

I think I'm going to preorder this and give it a shot.

http://www.sleepisdeath.net/

It's a two-player only game where people take thirty second turns scripting, scoring and animating an 8-bit environment that they each play through together.

http://www.edge-online.com/features/interview-jason-rohrer-0

I expect to be scribblenaut-level disappointed but am cautiously hopeful. At least nine bucks worth of hopeful. Every copy you purchase is good for two computers. Who's gonna play with me on this one?

and yes, it's by the passage guy.

What an awesome thing! Do you play over the internet, or what?

The internet-playable thing is kind of important for the purchasing decision...

Oh ok, it does seem to have it. Intrigued.

I think the demo just sold me, though I'm wary of the inevitable letdown.

(by which I mean the "demo" on the website)

It's internet playable but it looks like he hasn't really put a lot of work in on netmatching. If it's a good app, a community will likely emerge to make that workable; I'm sure Rohrer is counting on that.

the edge interview where he discusses staging experiences as a DM that you had with the PC from your perspective sounds like it has potential therapeutic application.

Will there be a gameroulette-type mode where you can play anonymously against others? That'd be awesome.

Otherwise I'd say it's pretty useless. Who's going to play this with a friend right there that often? I don't think twee/indie gamers have that many people around most of the time

well "friend" is relative; I could see ILXors crafting stories and inviting people to play more than occasionally.

I don't understand why people got so worked up about "Passage"

because it's a videogame that makes you FEEL u haertless fuk

go back to murdering hookers in your videogames if the future of the art SCARES YOU

this could be cool

I am stone cold.

This has been worked over many times, but I was also unmoved by Passage, even bored and impatient for all its tiny length, and despite my playing and enjoying a shameful number of art games. However, I hypothetically approve of Sleep Is Death, even though the title pretty well stinks.

this looks totally unappealing to me.

http://www.boingboing.net/features/rohrer.html

2 days left to pre-order. Still trying to figure out if I know anyone who will actually "play" this with me.

I pre-ordered this as soon as I heard about it but I am v.pessimistic about ever actually playing it - just don't really know anyone who likes videogames and that I'm prepared to be emotionally open and lame with!

i'll be playing with ilxors for sure.

this is a thing that I will pay for and hardly ever use, I am sure.

downloading now!

aaaaand this is gonna take a little while to get into.
if anybody else bought it and wants to host a game, let me know and we can try it.

Just got a copy, forks. So we can try it!

i'm headed out tonight, but email me mordy when you get a game up and i will hit you back to play maybe latenight.

I've got this too - mostlyconnect at gmail dotcom!

forksclovetofu at gmail fer me.

I'm definitely not ready to run a game on this thing -- I gotta wait for the tutorial to come out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYdVDmfbwjI&fmt=6

Yeah - which of is planning to DM?

i'm bogged down with work stuff for the weekend pretty much through wednesday, so i'm hoping you guys figure this out by the time i surface and I can try it out.

I'm working on a couple set pieces that might be fun. I'm currently playing a friend's thing. It's not bad.

I seriously do not understand.

I just ran a game -- I'll post the flipbook in a bit. It went really well, I think.

having a hard time focusing on work cuz i want to try this out with a GM'd game about a dream i had where my dog jumped out a window

This game is gonna need a better editing/tagging system at some point. At the moment it's very hard to browse the stuff you have, and I can only imagine it becoming harder and harder to manage as you make more scenes/textures/items/rooms.

Anyone up for this later today?

howcome you people have it already and when i look at the website you can't buy it 'til april 16th?

We pre-ordered, because we are hopeless suckers.

absolutely up to play, just let me know when you can DM

I've got a little something I can DM -- a couple short somewhat related set pieces. I'll probably be up to it around 6ish for whoever is interested.

email me please. i really want to try this and the DMing is perplexing me.

forks! i emailed you my IP. let's do this!

So, what do we think?

interesting; it's gonna require a lot of practice!
does the DM get a flipbook of the game? Can we post our half-assed practice go?

I don't get a flipbook, only the player does -- so you'll have to email it to me / post it.

how do i post it?

I've got some cool ideas of things I want to run. This was really easy to setup (i made an interrogation room, a visitor's room for a prison, a house, a prisoner in striped pajamas, and a hanging interrogation style lightbulb, everything else came with the game). I imagine things will get cooler when a lot of type can be spent on designing the objects/tiles/scenes. I'm already working on something for my wife where I made an avatar that looks like her.

not sure how people are posting them. but you can zip the folder (00001 or whatever) and post it to YSI and let people download it. You read the flipbook by opening the index.htm file

lot of time* xp

got it! just sent you a zip, so you can post if you'd like.

my immediate take is this feels like a beta. but a wonderful start!

It definitely needs a better UI, especially for organizing objects/scenes. Maybe a tagging system so you can more easily find an item. A few times I had to burn down precious seconds trying to figure out whether the object I needed was called cop, or police, or whatever.

some crazy stuff in here:
http://thecardchest.com/sid/

http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/2010/04/sleep-is-death-player-manual-and-guide-to-better-living.html

Oh, cool, this is from the comments in your link. http://sidtube.com/

Cool, there's a contest: http://sleepisdeath.net/amazingStories.php

I don't think I have enough content for it, but very cool.

mordy, let me know when you wanna play again.

With me or you GMing?

still not ready to gm on this end. it would be hella ugly.

You can already download content from sidtube. I bet in a year there'll be tons of tiles & sprites to download.

they just need to get better organized.

Yeah, & the gallery section is worthless, too.

This is great.
http://www.feverdream.org/Tutorial-01/

this looks fun!
http://thecastledoctrine.net/buy.php

http://boingboing.net/2015/05/19/cordial-minuet.html