A House in California

January 4, 2011 12:00 PM

A House in California is a surreal, narrative game by Jake Elliott about four characters who bring a house to life. It's a finalist for the Nuovo award at the 2011 Independent Games Festival. Available for Windows/Mac/Linux download or play it in your browser at Kongregate.

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posted by juv3nal (3 comments total)

Played this a few days ago. Seems to devolve into a click everything fest since it's not very logical. The narrative is pretty good though.
posted by jeblis at 12:08 PM on January 4, 2011

Despite not being listed as playable, a demo for Hazard: The Journey of Life (one of the other IGF Nuovo finalists) can be found here (windows only AFAIK) and is worth checking out.
posted by juv3nal at 2:46 PM on January 4, 2011

The narrative is very interesting. I don't think it's quite a click fest, but I think the cues could be better given to make it more clear what the goal of each section is.

It's a prime example of the evolution of narrative-gameplay.
posted by Han Tzu at 4:19 PM on January 8, 2011