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                <h1 id="annotation-rapture">Annotation: Rapture</h1>
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<p><em>Everybody&rsquo;s Gone to the Rapture</em> is a 2015 first person video game by The Chinese room, who also developed the game <em>Dear Esther</em>. Both of these games follow the pattern of solving a mystery by navigating a map and piecing together a story from events. There are no puzzles to solve, no enemies to fight. You don&rsquo;t even really interact with the environment except in the most superficial of ways &mdash; turning on radios, picking up phones, etc. For this reason, this genre of game has been dubbed &lsquo;walking simulators&rsquo;. While this is usually intended to be derogatory, there are a great many aficionados of this particular form of interactive fiction. What makes them work is not just by adding dimensions to the story in the form of media &mdash; audio, visual, music, etc &mdash; and the nonlinear nature imposed by having an open world to walk around in, meaning that you run into story beats when you reach a certain places on the map or, as mentioned, interact with certain objects.</p>
<p><em>Rapture</em> in particular works by having an open map of a small British town. Befitting the name, everyone has, indeed, gone to the rapture, though it doesn&rsquo;t appear to be a sudden or painless process. There are bloody Kleenexes<sup id="fnref:kleenices"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:kleenices">1</a></sup></p>
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<p>I contend that the plural of this should be &lsquo;kleenices&rsquo;, but no one listens to me when I bring it up. Ditto applying the French pluralization to non-French constructs. I got away with it in a book once, calling multiple versions of the character Ioan B&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:kleenices" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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update from sparkleup 2022-08-01 04:05:13 +00:00			<p><em>Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture</em> is a 2015 first person video game by The Chinese room, who also developed the game <em>Dear Esther</em>. Both of these games follow the pattern of solving a mystery by navigating a map and piecing together a story from events. There are no puzzles to solve, no enemies to fight. You don’t even really interact with the environment except in the most superficial of ways — turning on radios, picking up phones, etc. For this reason, this genre of game has been dubbed ‘walking simulators’. While this is usually intended to be derogatory, there are a great many aficionados of this particular form of interactive fiction. What makes them work is not just by adding dimensions to the story in the form of media — audio, visual, music, etc — and the nonlinear nature imposed by having an open world to walk around in, meaning that you run into story beats when you reach a certain places on the map or, as mentioned, interact with certain objects.</p>
			`<p><em>Rapture</em> in particular works by having an open map of a small British town. Befitting the name, everyone has, indeed, gone to the rapture, though it doesn’t appear to be a sudden or painless process. There are bloody Kleenexes<sup id="fnref:kleenices"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:kleenices">1</a></sup></p>`
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			`<p>I contend that the plural of this should be ‘kleenices’, but no one listens to me when I bring it up. Ditto applying the French pluralization to non-French constructs. I got away with it in a book once, calling multiple versions of the character Ioan B <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:kleenices" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p>`
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