Title:
Nightingale’s Playground - Consensus Trance
Developer:
Dreaming Methods
Source:
dreamingmethods.com
Date Added:
4/8/2020, 7:01:04 AM
Date Modified:
4/30/2023, 12:27:41 PM
Notes:
This is technically a four-part series, but due to part 2 being a webgame that doesn't work anymore due to missing files, they've been collected into this one entry.
Part 2 is available as a PC game in the Part 2 & Part 4 Additional App below (the zip file named Consensus_Trance_II.zip). Part 3 is the other Additional Application. Part 4 is an eBook, provided in all three formats, again in the Part 2 & Part 4 Additional App.
Original Description:
Created in 2010 by Andy Campbell and Judi Alston – and included in the European eLiterature Collection – Nightingale’s Playground is a work of digital fiction divided into four interlinked parts: an atmospheric browser based experience; an interactive virtual book with pages you can turn with the mouse; a short e-book download; and an immersive real-time 3D ‘game’ for PC and Mac.
The project was partly inspired by an old 8-bit computer game called The Sentinel – a unique and haunting strategy game devised by programmer Geoff Crammond that baffled magazine reviewers when it was originally released back in the 1980s. Hailed by some as proof that even computers like the Commodore 64 and Spectrum can achieve a sense of ‘virtual reality’, The Sentinel revolved around a tense and atmospheric one-on-one battle between the player and an unknown life-form that was slowly but surely taking over and enslaving the universe.
Using snippets of reviews and artwork from the original release of The Sentinel, Nightingale’s Playground follows the story of a teenage schoolboy whose best friend Alex – an oddball kid obsessed with pseudo-science and video games – mysteriously disappears leaving behind only a strange, insect-ridden journal of half-finished notes and sketches.
Application Path:
FPSoftware\Flash\flashplayer_32_sa.exe
Launch Command:
http://digitalfiction.dreamingmethods.com/nightingalesplayground/flash/consensustrance/scene1_loader.swf
ID:
9f38b170-5b13-4c22-a38a-77d20a946ae0