92 - The Interlude

This week’s game is “The Interlude,” an “anti-thriller” with a retro visual style by Eli Cauley and David Cribb. In keeping with the recent trends of games we’ve played, it’s a game about the time-wasting fidgeting that you’re driven towards while you’re sitting in a car with nothing to do. We talk about mid-2000s technology, T9 texting, obsolete ringtones and ringtones still to come, and the ways this game plays with the expectations of the thriller genre. Also, we make it clear that we’re a big fan of game developers that use the graphics settings—not the graphics themselves, literally the settings menu—as a creative space. Apparently this is a thing now!

 

Play the game here: https://crawlspacestudio.itch.io/the-interlude

And follow the creators on Twitter: @small_signs, @colestia3