The Game

On a late night in your dorm room, apartment 1403, you engage in simple conversation with your roomate while you try to get a highscore in your favorite video game. Divide your attention between the game and your friend as you answer questions and navigate through dialogue, guiding the conversation and offering idle advice as you learn about you friend's recent problems.

The Mechanics

Play The Mini-Game: The player will play an arcade-like infinite runner on the television screen in their apartment, trying to get a highscore before they run out of lives. While for the most part inconcequential, playing the game provides something that requires the player's attention and helps emmulate the feeling of maintaining a conversation while multitasking.

Talk To Your Friend: The player will engage in conversation with their roomate as they comment on their gameplay and slowly push the conversation to what's really eating at them. The player has preset dialogue to choose form in response to the roomate character, and can choose how they wish to respond in order to direct the conversation and help give advice.