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Posted January 03, 2024
A puzzle point & click adventure – About a Boy is now available on GOG with a -10% discount until January 17th, 2024, 2 PM UTC!

This title tells the story of a boy in a future time when, following his own destiny, he inevitably enters a dark and future city, where in fact there is no human being in the sense of the word.

Each of the game characters represents a group of people in the community. Miro, the main character of the game, inherits a visual feature that can see humans based on their animal temperament.

Moreover, you can now also get its Deluxe Edition!

Check it out!
Posted January 03, 2024
This looks interesting. Art style is beautiful!
Posted January 03, 2024
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GOG.com: Release: About a Boy

This title tells the story of a boy in a future time when, following his own destiny, he inevitably enters a dark and future city, where in fact there is no human being in the sense of the word...
Before reading the blurb, I thought this was a game about the 2002 movie (respectively: Nick Hornby's novel).
Posted January 03, 2024
The Video game "About a Boy" tells the story of a boy in a future time when, following his destiny, he inevitably enters a dark future city where there is no human being in the sense of the word.

Each of the game characters represents a group of people in the community. "Miro", the main character of the game, inherits a visual feature that can see humans based on their animal temperament.

The game genre is puzzle point-and-click adventure that is narrated interactively with the characters and the gameplay cores, which generally include pathfinding, puzzles, and dialogues.
Ok, English is my second language so please, someone else chime in - this is some bad translation "all your base are belong to us" stuff, right? I mean... "adventure that is narrated interactively with the characters and the gameplay cores"? "a visual feature that can see humans"?
Posted January 03, 2024

The Video game "About a Boy" tells the story of a boy in a future time when, following his destiny, he inevitably enters a dark future city where there is no human being in the sense of the word.

Each of the game characters represents a group of people in the community. "Miro", the main character of the game, inherits a visual feature that can see humans based on their animal temperament.

The game genre is puzzle point-and-click adventure that is narrated interactively with the characters and the gameplay cores, which generally include pathfinding, puzzles, and dialogues.
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Breja: Ok, English is my second language so please, someone else chime in - this is some bad translation "all your base are belong to us" stuff, right? I mean... "adventure that is narrated interactively with the characters and the gameplay cores"? "a visual feature that can see humans"?
The developers are Iranian, so it's also not their first language. My guess is that what they are really saying is that it is an adventure game that is narrated through interactive dialogues between the player and characters. The second quote indicates that Miro can either visually see other characters' aura, or it could mean that he is able to sense their animalistic - or basic primal human characteristics and react to them accordingly.
Post edited January 03, 2024 by Mori_Yuki
Posted January 03, 2024
What's with the implied inevitability of entering a dark future city as one follows its destiny ?

I've been following my destiny since birth and so far zilch as far as dark future cities are concerned.

What am i doing wrong ?
Posted January 03, 2024
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Breja: Ok, English is my second language so please, someone else chime in - this is some bad translation "all your base are belong to us" stuff, right? I mean... "adventure that is narrated interactively with the characters and the gameplay cores"? "a visual feature that can see humans"?
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Mori_Yuki: The developers are Iranian, so it's also not their first language. My guess is that what they are really saying is that it is an adventure game that is narrated through interactive dialogues between the player and characters. The second quote indicates that Miro can either visually see other characters' aura, or it could mean that he is able to sense their animalistic - or basic primal human characteristics and react to them accordingly.
I know what they meant so say, I just considered those particularly questionable in terms of translation.

I get that the devs may not speak perfect King's English, but could they really not get someone to help with these three short paragraphs? GOG surely has people who could do it, just for the sake of the entry in their store looking more professional. I mean, it really doesn't help to sell what looks to be a pretty story driven game when the catalogue entry is written like this.
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Namur: What's with the implied inevitability of entering a dark future city as one follows its destiny ?

I've been following my destiny since birth and so far zilch as far as dark future cities are concerned.

What am i doing wrong ?
You can always just watch Dark City.
Post edited January 03, 2024 by Breja
Posted January 03, 2024
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Breja: I get that the devs may not speak perfect King's English [...]
But of course they don't, since only The King doth speakest the King's English. Long live The King :P. In earnest, it looks like they used Google Translate and it messed up. Nothing out of the ordinary, but indeed one would normally rely on more adept speakers to write these sort of things. Perhaps the "King's English" is a bit tabu in Iran?
Post edited January 04, 2024 by WinterSnowfall
Posted January 07, 2024
Was thinking this was a licenced game of the Hugh Grant movie. Ha ha!
Posted January 07, 2024
I'll err to caution of my original intended comment and instead say this game looks a bit disjointed.
Posted January 07, 2024
Hmmm ... trailer contains too many combination puzzles for my taste and not a single line of dialog or character interaction. But the style looks nice. It's a 6€ candidate in the deluxe edition.
Posted January 07, 2024
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Breja: You can always just watch Dark City.
I guess it will have to do. And Jennifer Connelly is always a plus.

Thanks for the recommendation
Posted January 07, 2024
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Namur: What's with the implied inevitability of entering a dark future city as one follows its destiny ?

I've been following my destiny since birth and so far zilch as far as dark future cities are concerned.

What am i doing wrong ?
Visit Milton Keynes!
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