{"id":2986,"date":"2010-06-26T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T17:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2010-06-28T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T17:40:48","slug":"daray-manning%e2%80%99s-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2010\/06\/daray-manning%e2%80%99s-baggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Daray Manning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>Undoubtedly Rockford Illinois\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 premiere indie game developer, Manning betrays his Cactus\/biggt heritage, as well as a touch of Eugene Jarvis, in his skewed-n-crackly platformer study <em>Baggage<\/em>. The game is one of those hardcore S&#038;M things, where you die a dozen times just to work out how to get past an obstacle. The generous aspect is that modern indie convention of infinite lives and just trying again without a pause. Yet the game does a good job of instilling a certain dread, both though its difficulty and through its presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Just about every line could use a carpenter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s level, resulting an a dissonant Dutch angle effect. Likewise, every solid surface is filled with an ever-changing static and the background (and sometimes the foreground) is filled with an ominous orange fog. Your character is tiny; the levels are comparably large on the screen. Each has a sort of strange, one-straw-short-of-familiar shape to it. Ostensibly helpful text scrolls across the screen, though it spends more time taunting or giving inane protips or generally being bleak.<\/p>\n<p><b id=\"header\">( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diygamer.com\/2010\/06\/daray-mannings-baggage\/\">Continue reading at DIYGamer<\/a> )<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undoubtedly Rockford Illinois\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 premiere indie game developer, Manning betrays his Cactus\/biggt heritage, as well as a touch of Eugene Jarvis, in his skewed-n-crackly platformer study Baggage. The game is one of those hardcore S&#038;M things, where you die a dozen times just to work out how to get past an obstacle. 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