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1-20 of 20 - Kinetic Mouse Car, July 31, 2022
- Vulturous, May 27, 2022
Pretty cool idea, May 27, 2022
I thought it was a fun game with a cool idea. I'd love to see it be longer and have more of a storyline, though. I think it's a fun implementation of the links and plot options.
- Zape, November 29, 2020
- vikfen, October 16, 2019
- Greg Frost (Seattle, Washington), July 25, 2018
- BitterlyIndifferent, July 4, 2018
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5 people found the following review helpful:
Running familiar ground, January 8, 2018Black Marker is a game about censorship in an authoritarian regime. In this case, though, the redaction masks a mystery, and you can choose the types of information to censor.
This game is not the first of its kind. Other notable examples include Blackbar and Redactor. In Blackbar, you have to guess the redactor word - you play an anti-censor, where you must create meaning from what was eradicated by government censors. Redactor is probably closest in implementation, but with the added pressure of a time limit. Black Marker, however, grounds the material in its own universe, with a coherent storyline across pieces of material.
Select one piece of information, and all the phrases in the passage relating to that piece of information will be censored for you. The game penalises both censoring too much or too little, and so requires a little more thought than just clicking phrases at random. Where the game could have been stronger, though, is the emotional heart - the player character is little more than a faceless actor, and having some in-universe intrinsic motivation to do one’s job - or not do one’s job - would have heightened the tension in Black Marker.
- Xavid, November 17, 2017
- Edward Lacey (Oxford, England), November 17, 2017
- tekket (Česká Lípa, Czech Republic), November 17, 2017
- Karl Ove Hufthammer (Bergen, Norway), November 17, 2017
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A game about censorship, November 17, 2017You play a government censor in this game. You are given a series of incriminating documents which you have to censor; clicking on various sentences blacks them out.
You are graded on how you do. This doesn't matter quite as much as you'd think, but it does affect the final ending.
I loved the feel of this game, the feel of manipulating documents and being in control. I do wish it had been longer or the the censoring had been more closely integrated with the story.
- Mr. Patient (Saint Paul, Minn.), November 17, 2017
- Pseudavid, November 16, 2017
- sushabye, November 7, 2017
- lobespear, October 31, 2017
- E.K., October 25, 2017
- Wanderlust, October 16, 2017
- Sobol (Russia), October 15, 2017
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