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[Jonnyram]

Remember the days of secretly using your parents' phone line while they were at work, to dial up a BBS at 1200 baud, chatting with complete strangers and then having your conversation cut short when your sister picked up the phone to call her friend?

This game is for you!

It's a BBS-flavoured adventure, featuring romance, conspiracy, hacking, telephone fraud, with an exquisite chiptune soundtrack. And best of all, it's free! For Windows, Mac OS or Linux.

Grab it here: http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/
And enjoy!

Rapidshare mirror
Windows: http://rapidshare.com/files/361478037/digital-1.1.exe
Mac OS X: http://rapidshare.com/files/361474040/digital-1.1.dmg
Linux: http://rapidshare.com/files/36148319...al-1.1.tar.bz2
(Thanks, REMEMBER CITADEL!)

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

Thanks, sounds interesting, but the website seems to be down at the moment.

 

[Jonnyram]

Thanks, sounds interesting, but the website seems to be down at the moment.

Aww crap. I had enough trouble getting it yesterday too. It could probably do without GAF traffic. Anyway, keep trying sporadically, perhaps. It's well worth it.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Downloaded! And... I'll get to it some other time!

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

Maybe someone could mirror it on Rapidshare or somewhere?

 

[RevenantKioku]

The download is fucked and redownloading it is taking forrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeerrrrrr.

 

[Jonnyram]

Yeah, I only have the Mac OS version, so I'll put that on rapidshare now.
Please bear with me.

If anyone manages to snag either of the other versions and can upload to rapidshare, I'll edit the OP.

Edit: http://rapidshare.com/files/361474040/digital-1.1.dmg

 

[RevenantKioku]

Don't bother getting the other versions. Only the worthy will download it.

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

I managed to grab the Windows version, here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/361478037/digital-1.1.exe

 

[Jonnyram]

I managed to grab the Windows version, here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/361478037/digital-1.1.exe

Excellent stuff. Thanks!

 

[Baloonatic]

I managed to grab the Windows version, here it is: http://rapidshare.com/files/361478037/digital-1.1.exe

Thanks for that, this sounds interesting.

 

[Vinnk]

Got the mac one. Thanks!

 

[metsallica]

I beat this a few days ago, found it completely nostalgic and charming. Really well done!

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

Aaaaand the Linux version: http://rapidshare.com/files/361483195/digital-1.1.tar.bz2

Man, downloading this thing is a game unto itself

 

[Servbot #42]

I saw this linked over at rockpapershotgun.com, interesting concept i am gonna give it a try.

 

[Jonnyram]

Just beat it (I had a long session last night too - it's about 4 hrs?)
Loved it.

 

[RevenantKioku]

It's pretty fun.
The "just click reply" and not really know what you are "writing" is kinda interesting, but feels weird at first.
But once I started writing down the telephone numbers on a real piece of paper I just had to laugh at myself.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Finished it!

Was a good time. The long distance code thing got a little annoying at times, but that'd be my only complaint.

I really love games like this. There aren't enough of them.

 

[thetrin]

Downloading on RK's recommendation on twitter (I can't believe I'm saying that). Very excited to try it once it actually downloads.

 

[RevenantKioku]

It's okay. One day you'll realize I have the purest opinion in the gaming world.

 

[platypotamus]

subscribing to thread so I remember to DL @ home

 

[Tiktaalik]

It's pretty fun.
The "just click reply" and not really know what you are "writing" is kinda interesting, but feels weird at first.
But once I started writing down the telephone numbers on a real piece of paper I just had to laugh at myself.

Yeah I was really confused by that at first. I suppose they could have made that more clear that it wasn't a bug or something.

 

[Peronthious]

I grabbed it the other day, but got to a point where I wasn't receiving any messages and I'd done all that I saw I could do.

Neat idea, might poke at it again in a bit.

 

[Tiktaalik]

This game is seriously fantastic.

 

[dream]

wtf, you could never get through to a warez bbs on the first attempt. Where's the realism?!

(This game is awesome)

 

[Tiktaalik]

Help my VRAM buffer is being overloaded! How do I fix this??

 

[Rahk]

Sounds awesome. Downloading now.

 

[dream]

Help my VRAM buffer is being overloaded! How do I fix this??

The only real solution is to upgrade, unfortunately.

 

[Tiktaalik]

The only real solution is to upgrade, unfortunately.

damnit I read that mail but that doesn't help

 

[Tiktaalik]

damnit I read that mail but that doesn't help

Hmmm perhaps it's a bug, but if I reload the last autosave it gets rid of it. I'm stuck now anyway

Hint?

 

[Jonnyram]

Hmmm perhaps it's a bug, but if I reload the last autosave it gets rid of it. I'm stuck now anyway

Hint?

:lol That's not a bug.

Spoiler

You were supposed to reboot after installing.

 

[RevenantKioku]

:lol
Yeah, the game is pretty brilliant at times.

 

[ephemeral garbage]

I played this a couple of days ago after seeing it written up on Anna Antropy's blog, and found it incredibly charming. I'd love to find more games as well-written as this one.

Spoiler

Spent the last fifteen minutes or so of the game frantically dialing every number I'd ever seen, looking for another way out of the situation... alas, it was not to be.

 

[thetrin]

Just got the number for

Spoiler

The Underground Library

. I'm really loving this game. :lol

 

[Father_Brain]

The "gameplay," by any objective standard, is atrocious and incredibly tedious (redial every previous BBS you've been to find the email that will advance the story, repeat). Yet the story and the way it's delivered make me keep on playing. I have to admit that this is pretty impressive.

 

[thetrin]

The "gameplay," by any objective standard, is atrocious and incredibly tedious (redial every previous BBS you've been to find the email that will advance the story, repeat). Yet the story and the way it's delivered make me keep on playing. I have to admit that this is pretty impressive.

You pretty much just described the entire graphic adventure genre.

 

[Tiktaalik]

Well past my stumbling point and onto

Spoiler

ARPANET

.

 

[Father_Brain]

You pretty much just described the entire graphic adventure genre.

Well, they generally don't involve anything as bad as repeatedly dialing phone numbers and waiting for the canned modem sound effects to finish. And then having to manually reenter a password.

But while I will give the occasional point-and-click a shot, I'm not really a huge fan of the genre.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Pressing tab puts you in skip mode, but I'm not entirely sure whet that does. Maybe speeds up the dialing? But I usually studied a bit during the dialing. That and l played the game muted so I dunno.

 

[Tiktaalik]

damn what a good game.

 

[wolfmat]

What's with all the clicking?

 

[RevenantKioku]

Clearly it's goal is to replicate an experience. I agree that it could have used a few more keyboard shortcuts, but it really did feel like I was emulating an old os and not playing a game.

 

[Jonnyram]

What's with all the clicking?

It's based on AmigaOS which was mouse-based.

 

[wolfmat]

Alright, that explains it.. Goddamn Amiga vermin. ST 4 LYFE YO

 

[dream]

Alright, that explains it.. Goddamn Amiga vermin. ST 4 LYFE YO

lol.

God we're all so old.

 

[wolfmat]

Delphi is a fucking dick. Spread the word!

 

[thetrin]

You shut your mouth! Delphi rocks T_T

 

[wolfmat]

Also, since clicking sucks — you can also press return when your pointer is over something clickable! Sweet.

 

[dream]

Does anyone else find it amazing that the girl who wrote and designed a game that TAKES PLACE ON BBSES was born in 1989?

 

[KTallguy]

Fuck, this is nostalgic.
Although I was not really into BBS as much as IRC.... god damn.