Did you play Anthology of the Killer like I told you to? I knew I could count on you, person who replied, āYes.ā As a reward, Iāve got a different game for you to check out. Itās Dashcam, a narrative āexperienceā about being late for a parent-teacher conference.
It will take you about 7-ish minutes to play. If youāre like me, itās much better spent this way. I would have been scrolling for neat games on social media to share with you but instead found myself doom-scrolling unconsciously, only snapping out of it when I realized I was in Hell. Donāt do that. Play Dashcam instead.
You start off driving down a highway at night. Youāre late for a parent-teacher conference. Your husband will remind you if you choose to honk to pick up the phone; heās such a nag. Maybe if you demonstrate enough unreliability, it will take some of the focus off whatever little Stephen is doing to disappoint his teachers.
Once there, youāll drive through the halls of the school to learn about how your child is perhaps up to something far more sinister than just cheating on a test. Custom tarot cards about crime, an Angst Hole in the floor of the gym for angst-ing, blackmailing a teacher ā the sort of thing that many young teens get up to.
Maybe it would please the teachers if you took corrective action by injecting yourself and your car into the little brat to eliminate his āEvil Gene.ā But Iām not sure that sort of discipline is the right way to go. It certainly didnāt work when my parents tried it.
Dashcam is a narrative game that reminds me of the Ecto-1 segments of Ghostbusters Doom 2, because I know you understand that reference. Thereās a carās windshield framing your screen, but you still feel like a person. It makes you think, āWhy do we bother getting out of our cars? Weāre just going to get back in them later.ā
I donāt drive, but if you replace the word ācarsā with ābeds,ā then thatās what I think every day.
You can play Dashcam for free over on itch.io. It was created for the Pizza Jam #8 by ComputerJames, the person who judges Pizza Jam.
Published: Jul 24, 2024 02:20 pm