Hi, I am the woman who wrote "Escape From Somnium" (and made the reddit post)!
I am glad you got a chuckle out of it, even if it wasn't what you expected. Thank you for the shout-out!
For a bit of context - EFS was released on April 1st, and my initial pitch was that we would say "WOW! A ZERO ESCAPE X AI THE SOMNIUM FILES CROSSOVER?!" and then it was just... a weird shitpost. Problem is, the /r/aithesomniumfiles and /r/zeroescape mod teams (which I am part of) actually has a relationship with Spike Chunsoft's PR team. We got a review copy of AITSF2 so we could remove spoilers, for example.
Anyway, as a member of the mod team, it would be weird for me to - even jokingly!! - announce a Zero Escape x Somnium Files crossover game. So my hand was forced to announce it as a "fan game", even if that kind of ruined the main joke.
EFS was also done to learn Unity and the Naninovel visual novel engine - my previous experience was with Ren'py, and since we made EFS in less than a month, we didn't have time to implement actual, you know, escape rooms.
Anyway, I hope that explains why the tonal dissonance between what you expected and what you got, even if it doesn't excuse it. Thank you for the feedback and the shout-out, and I hope you have a lovely weekend!!
Sorry I just saw this — I genuinely did not expect anyone to actually talk about this game. I'm amazed!!
It is crazy you bounce off Sanderson when you will literally read anything. Sometimes I feel like Sanderson is writing fanfiction about his own universe, all his characters are tropes and he’ll put them into different AUs, like Sunlit Man being Mad Max, Tress and the Emerald Sea being Princess Bride, and How to Wizard being Die Hard or whatever.
I liked Emperor’s Soul since I unknowingly read it the same day that I visited the National Museum in Taiwan and saw the stamps and scrolls, which is what inspired him to write that novella.
Good movie recs this month. I like the star system.
Hi, I am the woman who wrote "Escape From Somnium" (and made the reddit post)!
I am glad you got a chuckle out of it, even if it wasn't what you expected. Thank you for the shout-out!
For a bit of context - EFS was released on April 1st, and my initial pitch was that we would say "WOW! A ZERO ESCAPE X AI THE SOMNIUM FILES CROSSOVER?!" and then it was just... a weird shitpost. Problem is, the /r/aithesomniumfiles and /r/zeroescape mod teams (which I am part of) actually has a relationship with Spike Chunsoft's PR team. We got a review copy of AITSF2 so we could remove spoilers, for example.
Anyway, as a member of the mod team, it would be weird for me to - even jokingly!! - announce a Zero Escape x Somnium Files crossover game. So my hand was forced to announce it as a "fan game", even if that kind of ruined the main joke.
EFS was also done to learn Unity and the Naninovel visual novel engine - my previous experience was with Ren'py, and since we made EFS in less than a month, we didn't have time to implement actual, you know, escape rooms.
Anyway, I hope that explains why the tonal dissonance between what you expected and what you got, even if it doesn't excuse it. Thank you for the feedback and the shout-out, and I hope you have a lovely weekend!!
Sorry I just saw this — I genuinely did not expect anyone to actually talk about this game. I'm amazed!!
Jordan Kurlan Brown "Robotortoise"
It is crazy you bounce off Sanderson when you will literally read anything. Sometimes I feel like Sanderson is writing fanfiction about his own universe, all his characters are tropes and he’ll put them into different AUs, like Sunlit Man being Mad Max, Tress and the Emerald Sea being Princess Bride, and How to Wizard being Die Hard or whatever.
I liked Emperor’s Soul since I unknowingly read it the same day that I visited the National Museum in Taiwan and saw the stamps and scrolls, which is what inspired him to write that novella.
Good movie recs this month. I like the star system.
I need the full backstory of that touhou remix
(Also not sure if Groundhog day being there twice is a joke or copypaste error)