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Something for Someone Else

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2019

Should you play it?

Something for Someone Else is a short atypical experience, a brief journey into the mind of a distressed game developer that feels haunted by a game he made. All in the form of a poorly hand drawn narrative platformer accompanied by the beautiful musics of Celluloid Jam.

What works
  • Deep emotional narrative
  • Unique hand-drawn art style
  • Meaningful personal expression
  • Free to play
  • Option to use cheat mode for accessibility
Things to keep in mind
  • Repetitive gameplay
  • Challenging platforming may frustrate some
  • Limited exploration
  • Music can become maddening
  • Not designed for broad audience enjoyment

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Something for Someone Else: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Exploration.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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