I just wanted to drop a quick note about Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer’s storytelling game: the game is now “pay what you want” (with a minimum of $1.75 for PayPal and bandwidth). SID has been out for about a month now, and in that time, the SID community has created hundreds of stories and resource packs, which are free to download for players to use with the game. One of my favorite stories so far is Shannon Galvin’s Are We Home?, which he created while playing Sleep Is Death with Jason himself. Check it out.
So far I haven’t tried the game – I’ve only read stories outputted by other players, as well as the various previews floating around on gaming websites. As such, I don’t know if I have much to add myself at this point. I will say that I find it interesting how Sleep Is Death is often presented as being a competitive game as well as a cooperative one, like in Brandon Boyer‘s preview (which is subtitled “Brandon Boyer vs. Jason Rohrer”). I’m not sure what to make of that, yet – I guess I’ll have to wait until I co-create my first story!
TIGdb: Entry for Sleep is Death