Re: Losing your Grip (discussion) (LONG)

[Torbj|rn Andersson <d91tan@rama.docs.uu.se>]

On behalf of Magnus Olsson, dbs@mozzarella.cs.wisc.edu (Daniel
Shiovitz) wrote:

> >   - >NAME THE DOG "Rex"
> > 
> >   Cool. (IIRC this has been done before (Zork 0?) but I haven't played
> >   whichever game it was done before in.) 
> 
> At first, I found this a bit silly, like a gimmick, but after a while
> I realized that being able to name the dog makes me care more about
> it. This rather simple "gimmick" actually increases my involvement in
> the game a lot...

I agree, though at the same time it's a bit annoying that the game
keeps refering to Rover (as I named the dog) as "it" when I'm thinking
"he". Hmm... in fact, I'm going to put that in my next Grip
bug/feedback report, even though I'm not sure what could reasonably be
done about it.

Torbjörn