Ruiness -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author(s): Porpentine Charity Heartscape Language: en First Publication Date: 2015-04-04 Rating: 3.5 (based on 15 ratings) EXTERNAL LINKS Play Online Play this game in your Web browser. Ruiness.zip Spring Thing 2015 version, at the IF Archive. Play this game in your Web browser. EDITORIAL REVIEWS Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling > Through both mechanics (the replacement of one protagonist with another and > another) and content (the endgame), the story suggests that the experience > of individuals is relatively unimportant, that their culture and history is > being shaped by supervising forces far beyond their comprehension. I found > this simultaneously bleak and comforting: bleak because it was hard to enter > into any one character’s life in any depth, comforting because the > supervisory force seemed to at least desire positive outcomes such as a > reduction in war.