Dialogue: A Writer's story

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Name: Dialogue: A Writer's story
Status: Complete
Site: https://teapoweredgames.itch.io/dialogue
Rating: PG
Pairing: Gen
Description: A game more concerned about mechanics than playability



This feels like a tech demo for the mechanics in the game rather than a story that tells itself through mechanics. I'd call it more of a conversation sim than a visual novel. Game play consists of having chats with people and clicking on parts of the conversation to investigate that topic. The conversations themselves happen in a variety of different ways with their own particular mechanics.
 

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Dialog tries to get creative with how interactive fiction can be modeled, but it seems to go for the worse idea every time, and the story (you know, the thing people play IF/VNs for) seems like a complete afterthought.