Our first game out of the gate this year, and on Sunday it picked up a BAFTA interactive award: Wired's got the story, although thinks Channel 4 is something to do with the BBC. Not yet, anyway...
The game has you interrogating prostitutes, roughing up gin heads and cutpurses for tips, and -- my favorite part -- slicing open a murder victim and rooting around in their stomach for evidence. There are also lots of real historical documents and artwork from the period, and some solid acting from performers swaddled in period garb.
All credit goes, of course, to Littleloud, the geniuses who made it for us at Channel 4 Education (yes, BSR is actually a "serious game" at heart, it being deliciously factually and historically accurate...).
It's also quite fiendish, what.
My wife is bafftling!
Posted by: Cory Doctorow | December 04, 2008 at 05:23
O shut it you.
Posted by: Alice | December 04, 2008 at 06:12
i'm sorry i am so very game-ignorant, but how does one go about saving one's game if they stop prior to solving it (and do NOT wish to go through the whole beginning again)?
Posted by: a rose is a rose | December 06, 2008 at 17:41