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Type: desktop-application
ID: between.desktop
Package: between
Name:
C: Between
Summary:
C: game about consciousness and isolation
Description:
C: >-
<p>Between is a pixelated art game for two players by Jason Rohrer.</p>
<p>You know exactly what you need to do -- you can see it shimmering right there in front of you. You can see it while
dreaming, too, and the difference has become subtle. Dreams wake into dreams, and people blend in and out: real characters
and dream characters, all woven into the same script. Finally, they fade completely, and you're alone in the expanse
with the construction. With time, you feel something growing, a pinhole that eventually yawns into a deep ravine of longing.
The construction languishes, though the expanse seems indifferent.</p>
<p>One night, in a dream, they appear: things that you clearly could not have conjured on your own. Not snowflakes. Not
the self-similar forms of leaves. Not distant planets' erosion networks as viewed through telescopes. Not those things
that are beautifully external but lack the signatures of consciousness. These things that appear are ugly and non-procedural:
indecipherable transmissions bubbling up through static, faded messages floating in bottles, and charcoal handprints on
cave walls. Evidence has reached you through time of unknown duration and distance of unknown magnitude, but stale evidence
is still evidence.</p>
<p>Somewhere, across whatever barriers stand between, is an "other".</p>
en: >-
<p>Between is a pixelated art game for two players by Jason Rohrer.</p>
<p>You know exactly what you need to do -- you can see it shimmering right there in front of you. You can see it while
dreaming, too, and the difference has become subtle. Dreams wake into dreams, and people blend in and out: real characters
and dream characters, all woven into the same script. Finally, they fade completely, and you're alone in the expanse
with the construction. With time, you feel something growing, a pinhole that eventually yawns into a deep ravine of longing.
The construction languishes, though the expanse seems indifferent.</p>
<p>One night, in a dream, they appear: things that you clearly could not have conjured on your own. Not snowflakes. Not
the self-similar forms of leaves. Not distant planets' erosion networks as viewed through telescopes. Not those things
that are beautifully external but lack the signatures of consciousness. These things that appear are ugly and non-procedural:
indecipherable transmissions bubbling up through static, faded messages floating in bottles, and charcoal handprints on
cave walls. Evidence has reached you through time of unknown duration and distance of unknown magnitude, but stale evidence
is still evidence.</p>
<p>Somewhere, across whatever barriers stand between, is an "other".</p>
Categories:
- Game
- AdventureGame
Icon:
cached:
- name: between_between.png
width: 48
height: 48
- name: between_between.png
width: 64
height: 64
- name: between_between.png
width: 128
height: 128
remote:
- url: b/be/between.desktop/cef7b0db19eb4c00330fb38000f89902/icons/128x128/between_between.png
width: 128
height: 128
stock: between
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- between.desktop
