If you think you want to wait until the game is finally finished, send me an e-mail at
[email protected]. When it's done I'll send you a link to the final product.\n\nIf after all this you're still interested in playing, [[play on!]]
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"I'm telling you man, //early// Flaming Lips? Like Transmissions from the Satellite Heart? Or Future Head? That's the shit."\n\n"I like Do Your Realize!" \n\n"Do You Realize is fine, but all that post-Soft Bulletin stuff, it's a snooze. Compared to their other stuff? It's music for [[car commercials.]]"
Three [[weeks]] since he moved out of your place.
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"I'm sorry, you're wrong, this is terrible music. The recordings are terrible."\n\n"It's called lo-fi! As in 'low fidelity'. As in that's what makes them cool."\n\n"It's very cute that you think that. I just think I prefer music that sounds good to music that sounds bad? Does that make sense?"\n\n"Shut up. [[Guided By Voices is great."]]
What Happened To Us
An [[hour]] since you gathered up the odds and ends he left into a cardboard box.
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This, of course, is ridiculous. Never happened. \n\nBut it is a good way to describe the beta (It's called a beta!) of the game you're about to [[play.]]
"Look, [[I don't want you to read too much into this|of course]], but [[I made you a mix."|((Of course the precise oppostie was true.))]]
So why upload this?\n\nA) Because I've put a LOT of hours into this game over the course of Wizard Jam. Mostly into things you won't even see here, like songwriting and the last third of the game.\nB) Because I'd like to get feedback.\nC) Because I'd like to know how many of you are interested in playing a full version of [[a game like this.|years ago.]]
You remember drunkenly pontificating all this and more. Jesus, [[what an ass you were.]]
You inhale.\n\n[[Well, that's him.]]
Which is to say, enthusiastic. \n\nWhich is to say, eager to please.\n\nWhich is to say, drunk on sex and [[alcohol|drunk]] and infatuation.
You grab the mix CD and put it in your DVD player. Instantly the first song takes you back to [[the night you made it.]]
This, of course, is ridiculous. Never happened.\n\nBut it is a good way to describe the [[rough draft]] of the game you're about to [[play.]]
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Ugh, you can't believe you have to go to [[work]] on a day like this.\n\n<<if $beer is 1>>\nYou sip the beer.\n<<endif>>
It's been a [[month]] since you broke up.
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You exchange greetings and exchange farewells and all of it kind of blends together. At some point the box of stuff leaves your arms and ends up in his, but you can't remember how. It's like a third generation dubbed videotape, his "Take care of yourself." distant and watery. Through the chasm you wish him well and you close the door.\n\nOk. That's over. [[That's actually over.]]
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You put the CD back in the box, tucked in between the pages of a Hawkeye comic.\n\nThen you buzz him up and exhale.\n\n[[KNOCK KNOCK]]\n\n<<set $honest to 1>>
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The story goes that when Sound of Music first played on network TV, the heads of ABC thought it was much too long, so they cut out [[all of the musical numbers.]]
You walk back to the couch and then to the kitchen, opening and closing the cabinet with cups and bowls and then back to the couch again.\n\nYou're not thinking of the face you used to kiss or the time you wasted trying to learn the names of the characters on Babylon 5.\n\nYou're thinking about [[that mix CD.|The mix.]]
You walk to the bookshelf and tuck the CD in between Slouching Towards Bethlehem and Alif the Unseen.\n\nThen you buzz him up and exhale.\n\n[[KNOCK KNOCK]]\n\n<<set $liar to 1>>
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Sounds fun and interesting right?\n\nI thought so. But getting sounds to play inside of Twine was proven impossible for this non-programming dope, so instead this version has external links to Soundcloud [[pages.]]
You have a lot of options! There are a lot of other Wizard Jam games you can [[check out here.|http://itch.io/jam/wizard-jam]]\n\n[[No, I want to play this game.|Play Game]]
((The whole scene strikes you as an incredibly [[22 year old]] sort of thing now but, in your defense, you were a VERY [[22 year old]] kind of [[22 year old]].))
3. When You Sleep - Memory House\n\n[[Listen Now|https://soundcloud.com/what-happened-to-us/3-when-you-sleep]]\n\nThis was the [[first song on the mix he liked.]]
What Happened To Us is a game that is heavily dependent on music cues and sounds, building towards a moment where you [[pick three chords to write a song for someone you think you love.]]
It is at this point that I, the developer, would like to apologize and say the game isn't finished.\n\nAgain, if you are interested in playing the final game, send me an e-mail at
[email protected] and I will send you a link when it is finished. \n\nIt'll probably end up in a different format than Twine.\n\n[[Until then you can go back to the start of this.|Start]]\n\n[[Or play any number of fine Wizard Jam games!|https://itch.io/jam/wizard-jam]]
Actually that's not a bad idea, do you have time to drink a beer?\n\n[[Definitely.]]\n[[I probably shouldn't.]]
What Happened To Us\nBy Patrick Ripoll\n\nA Wizard Jam Game\n\n[[Play Game]]\n[[Options]]
"Look, I don't want you to read too much into this, but [[I made you a mix."|((Of course the precise oppostie was true.))]]
3. \n\n<<timedgoto "sleep1" 0.5s >>
[[((Of course the precise oppostie was true.))|zip]]
So there's this aprocryphal story about the Sound of Music I've [[always been fond of.]]
And eight [[minutes]] since he texted you saying he was ten minutes away.
1. When Yer 22 - The Flaming Lips\n\n[[Listen Now.|https://soundcloud.com/what-happened-to-us/1-when-yer-twenty-two]]\n\nThe whole mix was somewhere between trying to impress him and trying to convert him. He never did have the coolest taste in music and, for some reason, that was so [[important to you.]]
He puts down his burrito and looks at the CD. [[The title makes him laugh]], which makes some place in the back of your brain warm and tingly.
You already called off work when he broke up with you a month ago and again the following week when he moved out. Somehow you don't think your manager would buy it [[again.]]
What the hell, [[work|Anchor Steam.]] isn't for another hour and you take the bus there anyway. You open the fridge and grab an Anchor Steam.\n\n<<set $beer to 1>>
You grab the box of his things and walk to the door to buzz him up.\n\n[[A CD falls out.]]
Ehhhhhh, you have to leave for work in an hour, and there's a pretty hard limit on how much better [[a single beer|Anchor Steam.]] could make you feel.
2. Tractor Rape Chain - Guided By Voices\n\n[[Listen Now.|https://soundcloud.com/what-happened-to-us/2-tractor-rape-chain]]\n\nYou have terrible handwriting, so you started off writing the tracklist very slowly and carefully. As it went on you got less patient.\n\n[[And you never did manage to make a Guided By Voices fan out of him.]]
You pick it up.\n\n"TOTALLY NOT TRYING TO HIT ON YOU JAMS 2012"\n\n[[Put it back in the box.]]\n[[Keep it.]]
Also, the game is just plain unfinished. It will end rather [[abruptly.]]
<<if $liar is 1>>\nYou look back at the book shelf where you stored [[the mix cd.]]\n<<else>>\nYour thoughts wander back to that mix cd. You hope he finds it. You also kind of don't. It's a little bit embarassing. After all, you were [[a very 22 year-old kind of 22 year-old.|the night you made it.]]\n<<endif>>
"Tractor Rape Chain?" he asks, incredulous.\n\n"It's a really good song with a really terrible title, by Guided by Voices. [[I told you not to read too much into it."|mixes]]
Patrick Ripoll
[[Bzzzzzz.]]