Sixteen and FFTLOL at NOFF
- Aug 23, 2016
- 1 min read
I am very pleased to announce that two of my films have been selected for the 2016 New Orleans Film Festival. Sixteen will have its USA premiere in the Documentary Shorts while Forged From the Love of Liberty will have its World Premiere in the Experimental section!
Can you give an example of a small decision in bitlife that ended up changing everything?
Sure. Say you decide to compliment a coworker. That simple act might boost your relationship just enough that they later recommend you for a promotion. On the flip side, if you ignore your mother's call a few times, your relationship stat drops, and she might not leave you anything in her will. That's how surprisingly meaningful small actions can be.
The best part about Drive Mad is that success depends more on control than pure speed. Rushing usually leads to disaster, which makes every completed level feel earned instead of accidental.
That contrast between short, controlled steps and chaining flips for a bigger multiplier really landed. You seem less interested in hype than in preserving the feel of risk itself, I also ended up opening Lowes weekly flyer afterward because it carries the same thread a little further.
In Wacky Steps, you are encouraged to take short, controlled steps as your default movement because rushing with long strides almost always leads to stepping on a crack or triggering a hidden trap, while in Wacky Flip, you are encouraged to chain multiple flips together because each additional flip increases your score multiplier, but also raises the risk of mistiming your landing.
I didn’t expect Block Breaker to be this addictive, but the way the ball physics works keeps me coming back. It’s simple on the surface, yet every level feels like a small puzzle to solve.