Games we like: Dinner Date

Julian is waiting for this girl, waiting, waiting, waiting. Mumbling, thinking, drinking wine. Julian is passive, uncertain, and waiting for his date to appear.

The so-so apartment, the uncertain dates with fellow girls / boys at the university: the generation of Europeans that has done Erasmus study exchanges will immediately project themselves in Julian Luxemburg. The basic loneliness, not being able to steer life in any direction.

But as a girl friend of mine remarked when I showed her the game, from a first look at his apartment it is clear that no girl will appear.

Dinner Date is a game where the player lives a segment of the emotional life of Julian; this life fragment is consistently and masterly depicted and transmitted in this game. Read the rest of this entry »