Killing Time At Lightspeed: Enhanced Edition

This is one of those "what do I say about it?" sort of games, if interactive fiction can be called a game. In the nuts and bolts, you have a delightfully-nostalgic amber-screen monitor aesthetic going (back to the good 'ol 80s) coupled with an outstanding atmospheric soundtrack. But it's the details where you find the worth of this one. Basically, you're on a flight to a star about 20 light years away from Earth. Like all mid-hop flights these days, there are few amenities - no food, no in flight entertainment, no cabin crew even - but there is free wi-fi and social networks still live, so there's a way to kill time. But since you're covering 20 LY in about 30 minutes, there's a price to pay: time dilation. Thirty minutes for you, decades for everybody not on the ship. Including your friends online. It's a story of a third of a life, experienced by your friends, but told with a strobe

A tiny piece of thought experiment, involving time dilation and facebooking. 19 years of time is just a few clicks away when you are travelling at near-lightspeed. A neat piece of interactive fiction it's. It tries to discuss some ethical and social issues augmentation, mega corporations and advanced AI would bring to our culture, but fails to elaborate those issues in-depth. That said, it's still a refreshing way to spend an hour or two. The story does not really offer any choice other than occasionally you get to choose your replies to some posts, and there are no branching endings, which is understandable because the player character is just literally sitting there the whole time.

There's something special about Killing Time at Lightspeed. The player assumes the role of Jay, sojourning to a distant Earth-like planet Gliese. But the year is 2042, faster than light travel is a reality, and they've only got a half an hour in-flight until you arrive at a new world. While on board, the player undergoes the premise of the game: Checking Facebook where every time the page is reloaded, years pass by on Earth. The Pros I'll start with the premise. I checked this game out from the Extra Credits suggestions of games I likely hadn't played. I agree 100% with what they said. The premise is awesome. General relativity is something I don't often experience in games, but here it's the apotheosis of why you'll be spending an hour or two playing this. In life today time is so important. Multitasking and squeezing literally every second out of every day through the assistance of te

29 years of social media in the blink of an eye. Killing Time at Lightspeed is (at a stretch) a text adventure game developed by Gritfish. It was originally developed for a game jam, and the ‘Enhanced Edition’ available on Steam is a slightly more fleshed out version of it. You are Jay, a regular ole person who’s on a 29-year spaceflight to start up a new life on another planet. It may only be 2040, but we’ve conquered the stars. The 29-year spaceflight will only feel like 30 minutes to Jay, but 30 minutes is a long time, and what better way to kill that time than by browsing social media. You’ll spend your time with this game looking through a fictional social media feed populated by your friends from back home, as well as looking at all the latest headlines. Each time you refresh your feed, you jump forward 2 years. Positives: I quite like the presentation of the game. It has that

A pretty good short text adventure game. (sort of) The price seems a little steep for the amount of features and the limited amount of time the game plays out on, but it is pretty nice. I won't spoil it, but the story is pretty good. It feels like it should've had a little more features, such as video and picture viewing, and features being added as time goes along, but it is still a nice game to play Pro's/Cons: Pros: -Good UI -Nice features -Very good story -A good amount of dialogue to read -The ability to respond with multiple choices to comments Cons: -Short (1/2 - 1 Hour.) -Steep price -Limited features. Overall, an 8/10.