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Waiting For The Light




Andrč
Thu Dec 26 14:28:45 2013
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Early Death: Best summarized with the meaning of the shortage WTF?

Andrč
Thu Dec 26 14:40:29 2013
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No I won??? Won what about what, or within what kind of a story? Seems more a psycho-test gone awry than a FF!

G
Sun May 4 13:28:56 2014
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Mysterious... interesting? Unusual.

Tammy
Wed May 28 05:33:21 2014
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What? I'm confused! why did it end like that?

margaret
Tue Sep 2 08:47:43 2014
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i find it was very entresting and italic to read

Clive55
Tue Sep 2 21:42:00 2014
I remember it being a fascinating mix of gameplay and exploring one's psyche when I played it a few years ago. I don't know if I tipped my hat to the author then for writing it.. but I'm doing so now.

Babap
Sat Oct 4 11:00:58 2014
Star - optimum ending reached
Completed.

But I really really struggle to understand the point of the story. I can get that it is some sort of metaphor. But the man and you know all those stuff.... it is meant to be the freedom of your mind or something?

Clive55
Tue Oct 14 04:19:22 2014
Babap.. I think what made this story a winner was the fact that it was a kind of departure from the kind of prose most of us are used to. Now, that's not to say we'd want that in every story we set out to solve.. lol... no. But it was refreshing nonetheless, and added a little twist to the overall genre. Never a bad thing, in my estimation.

Matthew
Sun Nov 9 23:49:51 2014
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amazing

Great!
Thu Dec 18 22:54:55 2014
I played it, and thought it was amazing and very thoughtful. The only problem was that I couldn't work out how to finish it.

michael
Wed Dec 23 12:12:09 2015
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great story, best I've seen so far

michael
Wed Dec 23 12:22:50 2015
the story was the best so far but i think the story is of this guy dreaming

michael
Wed Dec 23 12:24:20 2015
it took me one hour but it was worth it

ZeeeZU
Tue Mar 15 05:39:46 2016
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After soooooooo many times I finally cracked it. But honestly, I really STRUGGLE to understand the meaning behind. Anybody mind explaining?

Yaz
Fri Jun 3 20:57:04 2016
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Creepy one... ;)

Jack
Sun Aug 21 13:08:11 2016
Mulholland Drive is made by David Lynch, checked this form wikipedia, but in the game show was the wrong answer. wtf?
Mulholland Drive, yes.

Rai
Fri Jan 27 23:56:20 2017
So I just completed it, multiple times actually, and found it very original and intriguing. However, there is one thing I disliked about the "true" ending:

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I might be looking at it the wrong way, but with a book themed around psychology I can't help nitpicking over its symbolism.

Other than that I really enjoyed this book, and will definitely recommend it to others as well.

Robert Kingett
Sat Mar 11 15:05:57 2017
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If anyone can provide me with any tips that would be good! Here is what I did.

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bluejuice915
Tue Apr 4 14:39:01 2017
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This book is weird. Having played several times and not found the "winning" ending, I'm moving on to other games. I'll return later to try again. All-decision games are usually OK, but with little plot and clarity on what is correct, it becomes annoying. The writing is good, with clever mini-stories. But this is too tough. More plot or clues towards the correct solution would help.
Grade: 90

Raymond
Thu Sep 14 08:45:31 2017
Hmm. An interesting experience. Kinda cool with the different lights as different trials, or at least I assume that is how they work. Not sure if I got to the best ending or not, seemed to a good ending, just not sure if it is the best. Will be interesting to see the other comments.

Phil
Fri Oct 20 19:19:56 2017
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Great, really imaginative

Jixie Dye
Tue Nov 7 02:06:43 2017
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It was all very confusing. Never found out what was going on with the strange beast, have no idea what all that was about at the end. Very confusing indeed.

Robert Kingett
Thu Nov 9 21:21:07 2017
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I can't seem to get the right ending. Here is what I have done so far...

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what am I missing?

RogueOne
Wed Nov 29 19:16:11 2017
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Done!

ki
Tue Feb 6 13:12:23 2018
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it was good

ChillWithMill
Tue Mar 20 20:45:22 2018
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Had fun

ur mom
Wed Aug 1 13:44:24 2018
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Finished!

paul
Sat Mar 16 17:22:28 2019
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what a loser! but what is going on here?!

mcg
Wed Nov 20 21:01:35 2019
Don't know what to think 'bout that one... Sort of a psychological/stubbornness game/test?

Mage
Mon Oct 18 01:26:47 2021
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I still wish there's some kind of in-depth psychological analysis for this on the paths you choose. Interesting content, but it's hard to feel good about "winning" when one doesn't really understand why or how.

ffproject
Mon Apr 25 19:54:19 2022
I've used NeuralBlender.com which apparently "uses state-of-the-art AI technology to generate images from text input" to come up with some pictures for Waiting For The Light.

Sean
Sun Nov 13 03:33:21 2022
Played this again after what must be a decade. Good stuff and thanks for adding the pictures!

Harry Paratestes
Tue Mar 14 20:24:23 2023
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What on Earth was all that about??

YARD
Sun Aug 20 13:31:37 2023
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An interesting experiment, and I do not regret the experience, although I think it's a bit too "in your face" about its psychoanalytical nature. A larger work with more "layers of obfuscation" would probably be more impactful altogether. (Though I see some commenters were impressed as it was, but at least as many were just confused.)

I.e. most Silent Hill games since the second one have been about the protagonist's psyche, which was approached with varying levels of skill by different studios. When I just started, I thought it would present itself as more clearly recognizable horror throughout, like Silent Hill 2 itself. Instead, it's more like Silent Hill: Shattered Memories with how apparent it is about its ultimate purpose. If my point is not yet clear: Silent Hill 2 remains considered a classic, and a remake would have never been announced if there wasn't a lot of demand for it. Shattered Memories had a reasonably positive reception and you can still find its fans out there, yet it's largely forgotten by now.

Granted, I'll admit that I still had to resort to reading the comments here to win. Mostly because

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It's also interesting that this is apparently the first, and so far only, work on here to be almost entirely illustrated, thanks to AI image generation? (Almost - some "interstitial" game show and forest refs are still "bare".) I wonder if any others on here are slated for such treatment, or if the "dreamy" nature of this one would make it a one-off? In either case, I think the pictures might already influence narrative judgement.

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I think the only typo I saw was

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"You answer before your opponents has a chance"

Lastly; I keep suggesting the addition of filters to the main page/sidebar, but I think being able to sort by the number of refs would be an excellent feature for when one is set on whether they want a short experiment like this, a somewhat longer trial, a standard-length adventure or a sweeping epic. It's not exactly easy to glimpse that information from the titles alone. In addition to sorting by author and by the number of comments, I think it could really be one of those changes helping to breathe more life into this hidden gem of the internet.
If I can get a better grip on AI image generation there could be some more extensive use of it here, as it stands it only really makes sense for the less 'real' scenarios. I've also put some in Escape The Asylum, for example.

There's a limited amount of filtering, realistically I'm not going to add any more.

http://www.ffproject.com/all.htm - shows all the gamebooks and the number of references.

If you click on an author's name, for example http://www.ffproject.com/gby23.htm, that author's gamebooks are shown.

If you click on a year, for example http://www.ffproject.com/year2014.htm, that year's gamebooks are shown (the year the online version was added, not when they were written).

YARD
Mon Aug 21 09:36:52 2023
To ffproject: I see. Perhaps it would be a good idea to place a version of this answer in the FAQ?

I should also say that unless you explicitly decide to hover the author's name, there's really no way to tell that it is clickable - after all, it's written exactly the same as the rest of the heading, with the same font, same colour and no underline/italics/etc.

MPerera
Sun Sep 3 06:29:12 2023
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Finally won this!

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Kieran
Fri Sep 8 22:41:18 2023
My inspiration for writing this was I was watching the movie Inland Empire and thinking 'I'm enjoying this without having the faintest clue what's going on' and figured I'd write a gamebook in this manner. My idea was that people could make their own interpretations of what it was all about even though I had a clear idea in my own head what it was about. But to be honest, I'm probably kidding myself that people thought it worth thinking about that deeply and it's more a case that people are just mystified why they have to take certain actions
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in order to win. While I left a couple of clues in the quiz show segment, they're probably too obtuse to be helpful.

For anyone who's curious about what it actually is all about:
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YARD
Sat Sep 9 08:04:12 2023
Yeah, I read the comments after getting stumped on the military part, so I found someone laying out

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