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Living Room / The Abrupt Goodbye
« on: October 17, 2007, 11:47 PM »
Here's a social experiment of a game called The Abrupt Goodbye, which is a conversation between a woman and a blind man. The entire conversation is written by people who visit the site. The only info you are given is that there is a blind man sitting on a bench in the subway and a woman comes and sits down next to him.
When you start the game you get to choose which role of the conversation you will play, the blind man or the woman.
If you pick male, you start the conversation. If you pick female, the man says something to you first and you choose the response.
But like I said every part of dialog is written by people like you and me who visit the site. It seems to have a maximum of five responses per turn, so if there aren't five, you have a chance to write your own.
Any time you write your own, the conversation will abruptly end with the woman leaving.
This is because nobody has written a response to what you just entered, so the game cannot continue on that particular line of dialog yet. Also, you will never see a response to choose from unless it has a response written to it. So if your only choice is to type in a custom response, you're the first person to see/respond to that particular thread of dialog.
It's kind of fun to see what people are coming up with. It's also built to sort the responses based on popularity. The ones that don't get clicked move down the list and are eventually deleted.
More info about the game, made by Andy Schatz can be found here: http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/44702/13730
When you start the game you get to choose which role of the conversation you will play, the blind man or the woman.
If you pick male, you start the conversation. If you pick female, the man says something to you first and you choose the response.
But like I said every part of dialog is written by people like you and me who visit the site. It seems to have a maximum of five responses per turn, so if there aren't five, you have a chance to write your own.
Any time you write your own, the conversation will abruptly end with the woman leaving.
This is because nobody has written a response to what you just entered, so the game cannot continue on that particular line of dialog yet. Also, you will never see a response to choose from unless it has a response written to it. So if your only choice is to type in a custom response, you're the first person to see/respond to that particular thread of dialog.
It's kind of fun to see what people are coming up with. It's also built to sort the responses based on popularity. The ones that don't get clicked move down the list and are eventually deleted.
More info about the game, made by Andy Schatz can be found here: http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/44702/13730
