#pink zone

Luz was a smart girl. Or so she’d been told by every teacher at every school conference. But she was impulsive. All that cleverness. All those facts. They all meant nothing to her in the heat of the moment. Luz Fuentes DeDios would rather die looking for Sherman than live preparing for what might mean a lifetime of wandering in search of him.

As she took the corner of a building too fast, Luz slammed into someone else and scrambled up and away as if her entire body was the fingertip of a child reaching for the heating element on a burning stove. “F--fuck.” She spat out as she raised her handgun to meet the other’s gaze. Not a walker. Dios mio. For once that wasn’t a blessing.

the overworld music is amazing, just this very cheering yet strangely haunting melody -- i broke the "rules" and played in firefox which seems to cause a glitch where upon returning to the mothership and coming back, the two pieces of music layer over each other, sometimes in multiple instances -- i will treat this as a feature, a richer and more polyphonic melody occurring every time

i was tickled by how much there was to interact with and how the minimalist, almost proto-earthbound-esque (earthbound on atari 2600, perhaps, earthbound on a graphing calculator) graphics allowed you to project your own ideas onto the surroundings, your own possibilities, your own stories. pink zone has one story but it has many stories too, that's nice

like jkittaka said the permeable boundaries of the world are very interesting -- i felt breathtaken the first time i realised i could [REDACTED] -- and yet it never felt wrong or broken, it felt conceptually innovative in a way so simple that flags up just how adherent to formula most game designers are -- like really, in over 40 years of games no one else has ever deconstructed the idea of walls?? it heartens me to see this in indie game design and it shocks me to see it nowhere else, ever

When I first played Pink Zone (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie) I skipped over the description/instructions for whatever reason and jumped straight into the game. The biggest effect of this was that I didn't understand the special powers system. This will mostly describe my initial experience, although I did go back later with fuller knowledge for a bit.

I fall silently, and when I crash the only noise is the beginning of music, enticing me to look around. 3 colors exist in Pink Zone. Pink spongy ground; Black skeletal structures; White, the color of et cetera. I see purple, but purple is an illusion, the color of my tranparent black cockpit glass over the pink mud.