You have probably gone home with a Mary Poppins in your time after a particularly invigorating night out, and if you, yourself, are a Mary Poppins, you have probably gone home with many.
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The mountain was quiet, even the sheep had gone home.
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You've gone home, knowing that you've made them very happy.
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The party continued even after the orchestra had gone home.
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"Everyone had gone home," a local union source told Reuters.
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If only his celebrity crush hadn't collapsed and gone home.
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People were present in Gone Home, but it was abstract.
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The lawyers had gone home; their cases were called first.
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Germany dislikes buying drinks for others, and so has gone home.
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In government offices, after everyone has gone home for the day?
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It was dark out, and all my coworkers had gone home.
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Jessica Arrigo had gone home in decent health in early 19983.
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But by the time I got there, everyone had gone home.
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"He could have just packed up and gone home," Jensen added.
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One by one they have all gone home, often in heartbreak.
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Wipe them all again after the other kids have gone home.
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It could, in theory, patrol after everyone else had gone home.
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Some 700 to 800 volunteer firefighters have gone home, Johns said.
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The marching band that played "Don't Stop Believin'" has gone home.
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Have the other 600 plus solvers given up and gone home?
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"Maybe I would have gone home and committed suicide," joked Wenger.
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Inside, it feels like most of the station has gone home.
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Colton Underwood should have gone home after revealing he "dated" Tia Booth.
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"I've gone home with a couple from a bar before," she says.
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For example, we have no shoes in Gone Home, not a one!
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Afterward, Gao had gone home, perhaps alone, or to his wife or
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So far, 97 patients have recovered and gone home since the outbreak.
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You need to make something where the fanbase feels like they've gone home.
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What Remains of Edith Finch (WIRED review) is a bit like Gone Home.
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Are games like Dishonored or Gone Home already tapping into this design space?
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The closest analogue I can think of in video games is Gone Home.
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A number of games take advantage of this, like indie game Gone Home.
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Towards the end of the night, Aguilera revealed that Max had gone home.
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CLC member Gertrude Ekombe has not gone home or to work since January.
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"It's been 17 months that I have not gone home," Mr. Ibrahimkhel said.
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If we'd met at a bar, I probably would've gone home with him!
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Two patients died, three remain at the hospital, and three have gone home.
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It is nighttime and the fans have all gone home after the game.
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Try to be the last person still working when others have gone home.
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He said she had apparently gone home after the fire but became ill.
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I was not being very productive and everyone had gone home at 4.
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Tacoma, like Gone Home, cuts the player off from direct contact with other characters.
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That said, if I hadn't gone home tonight, I would have demanded a recount.
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As of Monday, the Washington man had gone home with nothing but a cough.
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Tacoma isn't the revelation Gone Home was, but it also doesn't have to be.
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I'd probably not call Gone Home a troll, more a pleasant twist on expectations.
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"She's gone home, by the way, in case you were wondering," says another, disdainfully.
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Development on Gone Home began around March 2012 and would last approximately 18 months.
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Agribusiness giant Charoen Pokphand Foods also said none of its workers had gone home.
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Gone Home has something very important to say about that, in a positive way.
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Although, his friend was still on the scene ... Miller had fled and gone home.
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And since we've gone home to our separate states, we've spoken almost every day.
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If that was our plan, they would not have gone home with three children.
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I told my girlfriend I'd gone home to visit my parents for the weekend.
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Tacoma might not be Gone Home 2.0, but there's nothing wrong with that, either.
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It was late evening in Bangladesh and most of the staff had gone home.
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"You know, they could have so easily gone home and grieved privately," he said.
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He often finds himself alone in the gym when everyone else has gone home.
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We must stay there until we're sure all the people and guards have gone home.
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If Michael himself had voted for Laurel instead of Wendell, Laurel would have gone home.
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Trackless has a more populated world than other games in the genre like Gone Home.
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My boyfriend's already gone home, so my friend and I walk back to my house.
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While cleaning up after everyone has gone home, Jessie binges on the cake and purges.
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Of the remaining 35, eight have gone home and 27 were still hospitalized on Tuesday.
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But as the night wore on and most reporters had gone home, the language changed.
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I hadn't gone home yet, and was having the last one before going to bed.
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Lionel Messi and his Argentine teammates have gone home after being beaten stylishly by France.
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If you're counting, a total of three men have gone home at a rapid clip.
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Jones had gone home for the day, so I didn't speak with him in person.
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"I should have gone home after the party, I shouldn't have been there," Woods said.
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Surely, he said, she had gone home or left the camp for a new destination.
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"I have now met a lot of people who have gone home," Ms. Cheng said.
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"I would have gone home ages ago," she said, if she had had somewhere to go.
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"We wanted to build upon the structure of Gone Home, without completely repeating ourselves," says Zimonja.
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The recently released game was created by Fullbright, the studio behind the popular 2013 Gone Home.
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Gone Home isn't what we might think of as a horror game, but it is unsettling.
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If they'd stayed true to what we were going to do, Jess would have gone home.
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Students could be registered to vote at university but may have gone home by election day.
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Like he doesn't realize the audience has gone home while he's just going on and on.
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"They could have just delivered the designs and gone home, but they're still here," he said.
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Thailand has recorded four death since the outbreak while 70 patients have recovered and gone home.
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The Zelda family of games was another big influence, as was the 2013 videogame Gone Home.
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A lot of people have fallen off and gone home but we still got some stragglers.
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All three babies have gone home with their families and are doing great, the hospital said.
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News, Pitt had so much fun he hung around long after most guests had gone home.
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So what's to come of all those buildings once everyone has taken their balls and gone home?
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Tacoma, the just-released exploration game from Gone Home studio Fullbright, relies on some very familiar tropes.
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Suddenly, Judith remembered a drunken night in 2014, when she and Marquis-Boire had gone home together.
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Gone Home will be a hard act to follow, but The Fullbright Company is going to try.
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Mr. Eliyahu told the court that one night he had gone home after midnight, but that Mrs.
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He'd gone home to Colorado for spring break, and won't be getting back to campus until Sunday.
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Read more:More than 100 Americans who were on the Diamond Princess cruise ship have finally gone home.
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Many viewers thought that Victoria should have gone home long ago, but Peter sees something in her.
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Most days I would have gone home, but I really didn't have the time for it today.
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However, the legislation died for the year because the House had already gone home for the holidays.
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"He's just thrilled to have gone home as the winner and gotten engaged to his sweetheart," Burnett said.
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Chip Roy of Texas played that part Friday afternoon, after most of his colleagues had already gone home.
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Last night he was just thrilled to have gone home as the winner, gotten engaged to his sweetheart.
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The game plays out like most first-person adventures (think Gone Home or Everybody's Gone to the Rapture).
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The sci-fi adventure set to follow up indie-hit Gone Home has been delayed until next year.
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The truck was in the company parking lot, and all the employees, their workday done, had gone home.
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I had waited until everyone else had gone home, so I didn't have to say any more goodbyes.
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Congress has declared victory and gone home, but it's important for leaders in both parties to stay engaged.
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It was always going to be tough for its developers, the team at Fullbright, to follow Gone Home.
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We had an idea that he might have gone home — we weren't too certain where he had gone.
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Chagrined, Ms. Novak later said she had gone home to Oregon and not left her house for days.
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Foreign students enrolled at American universities who had gone home for the winter holidays were blocked from returning.
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Since only Natasha Parker had gone home over the course of the episode, there are two available roses.
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But the election is five days after term ends, and many students will have gone home by then.
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He dismissed the rumor, but it resurfaced a few days later, after he had gone home to Wisconsin.
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Now the observers have gone home, allowing the war to continue unfettered and unnoticed by the outside world.
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If no counter-protestors showed up at Charlottesville, would all the neo-Nazis really just have gone home?
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With the August-due Tacoma, Fullbright is moving away from the familiar, homely environments of critically acclaimed Gone Home.
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At the end of Avengers: Infinity War, most of Earth's Mightiest Heroes could have gone home in an ashtray.
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Gone Home (iOS) Florence lasts less than two hours, but it manages to do a lot in that time.
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In the case of Fullbright, the creators of the acclaimed exploration game Gone Home, you put people in orbit.
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Now my longest friend has gone home, and you've gone to be with our Father — like we all will.
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He could have gone home and left the babies to the care of the Galveston staff -- but he didn't.
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By the time the Rio Olympics concluded Sunday, many athletes had gone home to begin or resume other careers.
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While some Jews had gone home to rebuild Israel, others like Esther remained in the capital of the empire.
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The shit side, the 'I should have gone home hours ago' side, the so tired but so awake side.
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They were the last of the Leuzinger contingent still in the gym; Westbrook, by that point, had gone home.
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And Greg had gone home alone and, while throwing up, softly uttered, 'I should have said, 'I love you.
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Another 13 patients had been released after recovering, bringing the number of those who had gone home to 1,137.
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It's part Portal 2, part Roman Polanski thriller, and part Gone Home, with an emphasis on story and atmosphere.
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"I haven't gone home this early for the holidays since I left my hometown in 2005," Ms. Li said.
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It's been nearly four years since Gone Home, a seminal adventure game that's been rippling into others ever since.
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Gone Home is pretty straightforward: you enter the house, enter the hallway on the left, go door by door.
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Four people have died since the outbreak began, 860 are hospitalised while 70 patients have recovered and gone home.
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Four people have died since the outbreak began, 860 are hospitalised while 70 patients have recovered and gone home.
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One worker, a middle-aged woman with the surname Du, said her children had gone home to central China.
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It's also an innovative kind of digital stage-play, a performance-oriented evolution of what Fullbright did with Gone Home.
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She had gone home after the fall but, feeling pain through the night, arranged to be taken to the hospital.
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While it's a radical aesthetic departure from Gone Home, a lot of the lonely atmosphere from Fullbright's first game remains.
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Unity Unity is used by everyone from individuals to professional studios that make "AAA indies" like Firewatch and Gone Home.
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The cat has now gone home to stay with one of our volunteers and Leopard (kennel 2) is a hero!!
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By Monday most lawmakers had gone home for the holidays, while Trump tweeted he was staying in the White House.
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In Hassan Sham camp alone, more than 200 families like Jassim's have returned this year after having initially gone home.
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Tacoma is The Fullbright Company's follow-up to Gone Home, due out for Xbox One and PC sometime this year.
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Determined to search for answers and connect with something, I had gone home and started searching alopecia on the internet.
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In "Gone Home," players learn about a romance between two teenage girls by rummaging a 1990s house in Portland, Ore.
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"He added: "Many students will have just finished their term and gone home for Christmas, and they risk being disenfranchised.
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He snuck into the shelves of the warehouse and hid there until he was sure all staff had gone home.
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If he would have not just done anything, gone home, go to sleep, relax, he would have been a hero.
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Nevertheless, it's a worthwhile game for pushing the narrative potential for digital storytelling, much as Fullbright previously did with Gone Home.
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This isn't a new idea — it's essentially the central mechanic of Tacoma, the 2017 exploration game from Gone Home studio Fullbright.
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"Had it been my first daughter, I would've been much more upset and gone home and cried in private," she says.
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Like Gone Home and P.T., Devotion uses the assumption of the home as a safe space as an entrance into horror.
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The little Russian tortoise had gone home, too, along with the rabbits and the guinea pigs and one of the chinchillas.
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They come here in the early morning hours—after the Johns have gone home, but the drinks still have them buzzing.
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Sanders also outperforms his rival among college students, many of whom will have gone home after their schools shut down operations.
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B. When you first step into The Fullbright Company's critically acclaimed hit Gone Home, it's like walking into a ghost story.
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As it eventually turns out, Gone Home is indeed a ghost story – but probably not the kind you were thinking of.
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The rest of the tourists have gone home, and it's just my wife and I and the birds and our bus.
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In fact, they had no dialogue at all, opting instead for purely environmental storytelling ( Dear Esther) or audio cues (Gone Home).
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Like "Gone Home," it's a first-person adventure game with no combat to speak of, but that's where the similarities end.
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Il n'y a rien, il n'y a rien, he would mutter down the phone to his journalist friends who had gone home.
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Lattin tweeted that an angel had gone home that night and that he wished he could have played in front of her.
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Certain games thrive on slowness, including Gone Home, which is about a young woman haunting a world she no longer quite recognizes.
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This is the setup for What Never Was, a first-person adventure that feels like a cross between Gone Home and Myst.
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It was late, everyone had gone home, and I was still in the studio, running some stream tests for the next morning.
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For the last couple of Thanksgivings, however, I've been up in Rhode Island with my wife, so we haven't really gone home.
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Some villagers who fled in September, when the alert was last raised to the highest level, have gone home despite government warnings.
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Gone Home shook me to my core when I first played it, so it's natural to hope for another experience like that.
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Beresford-Redman had gone home to California, but was eventually extradited to Mexico in 2012, and convicted for Monica's murder in 2015.
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Occasionally, as word spread that I'd gone home for good, my teammates—former teammates—would wake my phone with a text message.
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I can keep at this thing — this race, this manuscript — when every other reasonable person would have given up and gone home.
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This just proved what BenDeLaCreme said all along, that Morgan McMichaels had a weak performance the first week and should have gone home.
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I know plenty in power who should have gone home long ago – many of whom still make their livings from decrying the establishment.
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The creators behind the 2013 hit Gone Home left an unmentionable for players to discover in their latest and newly released indie darling.
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The top artists of the year have gone home with their gramophones after being recognized for the best performances of the past year.
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In recent weeks, many people have gone home as the rate of the leak dwindled and air filters were installed in their homes.
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In multiple instances — including with James and Suh — when Buffett has donned their numbers, the players' teams have gone home with wins. Coincidence?
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One night, I awoke to a frantic phone call from yet another one of my close friends who had gone home with Matt.
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A student employee answered but said he could not help without the permission of his manager, who had gone home for the night.
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The only problem was Garbrandt had already gone home for the day, apparently having already waited several hours for the king to arrive.
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By the time Donald Trump and Ted Cruz delivered closing remarks to their respective conservative fans, their Democratic counterparts had long gone home.
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"Gone Home" is an all-time great game that people with full-time jobs, children and other real-life obligations can actually finish.
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Others have gone home to Jordan and Saudi Arabia -- where there was an ISIS-inspired attack on the same day as the Colombo bombings.
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"Unfortunately, Matt had gone home at this point and did not get to meet Liam Neeson, so we're hoping he comes back," Johrden explained.
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The Fullbright Company staked out a very distinct space with its 2013 debut Gone Home, a domestic slice of life set in 1990s Oregon.
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But at times, Tacoma tries to do a bit too much, getting away from the personal, scrappy feel that made Gone Home so memorable.
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Look at examples like Gone Home, Spec Ops: The Line, and Firewatch; all of them, gut-punching interactive stories with something meaningful to say.
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By the evening most protesters had gone home, leaving the field to youths clashing with police as they tried to approach the presidential palace.
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Gone Home leveraged its low-budget status to tell a story of discovery and exploration via natural objects, rather than splashy exposition-packed cutscenes.
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How to clean your home to prevent coronavirus spreadMore than 100 Americans who were on the Diamond Princess cruise ship have finally gone home.
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Protesters and supporters who traded angry taunts outside the rally have long since gone home, and the arena has gone back to hosting basketball.
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Dr. Howard Zucker, the state commissioner of health, said five patients were hospitalized, including one in the ICU, though all have gone home now.
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The House of Representatives has already gone home for its August break and the Senate is expected to do the same by mid-August.
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Thailand has recorded one death since the outbreak while 52 patients have recovered and gone home while 668 are still being treated in hospitals.
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Kim most likely wants what his family has always wanted: regime survival, the U.S. gone home, and reunification of Korea under the Kim family.
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Gone Home and Edith Finch are both focused on families, yet the player meets none of these relatives, in each game's present, during their stories.
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The follow-up to breakout 2013 hit Gone Home, Tacoma features a similar focus on narrative-driven gameplay, but moves the setting into outer space.
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If Gone Home was proof that first-person narrative games had a future, Tacoma represents that very future — and how much potential it still has.
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Angela makes a decent play and – combined with her incredible defense in the immunity challenge – I'd give her the Fishy, if Michael had gone home.
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And with up to 9 hours of battery life it'll last long after the grill has cooled off and all the guests have gone home.
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You've gone home for the weekend, and for old time's sake headed out to the club you went to when you were at sixth form.
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But they had decided that if I was voted out of the game, even if I made the jury, that I would have gone home.
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In August, Gone Home fans can take a trip beyond the confines of terrestrial abodes with Tacoma, Fullbright's second game after the studio's 2013 breakthrough.
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It's reminiscent of so-called "walking simulators" like Firewatch or Gone Home, but Virginia differs in regards to how it deals with time and space.
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Zahra, 37, has taken part in the Gostra ever since he was a child, and has gone home with several trophies and a few bruises.
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"The people who made Gone Home and Firewatch clearly have a lot of perspective, but they've also been in games for a while," says Heffernan.
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The House members have gone home, and the only way they can approve the bill without flying to D.C. is if the vote is unanimous.
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Children of some nations, particularly Russia, Turkey and some Central Asian republics, have gone home more quickly, but Western children have not fared as well.
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"They have gone home to shower ... and then they will be able to visit them, through a glass panel, at the hospital," Narongsak told reporters.
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Gone Home never deserved that legacy, nor did any of the other creators—mostly women, or otherwise marginalized—or games that ended up carrying it.
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Games like Gone Home and Dear Esther might lack the more advanced gameplay mechanics that others have, but the relationship to the player is entirely unique.
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Wagner said Fischman used to have a preference for working overnight shifts that started after most of his co-workers had gone home for the night.
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Not a lot of people were there because we got married super quickly at the end of the tour when half the people had gone home.
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However when upgrading to anything that just slightly pushed more pixels, like the relatively mild Gone Home, the Kangaroo would stall out on the load screen.
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Lebanon says 50,000 Syrian refugees, among the more than a million it says are on its soil, have gone home voluntarily in assisted returns this year.
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Gone Home even fits in here, since folks expected to be a ghost story—but it was instead a heartwarming tale of very queer 90s love.
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WATCH: Culinary Escapades in Copenhagen with Kadeau He tells the class they need to remember to talk about all that they've learned once they've gone home.
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In pure game design, it feels like a conscious reaction to a player-first gameworld: In Tacoma, as in Gone Home, you don't affect the world.
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I will literally try to buy lunch, coffee, or dinner for someone, and after I've gone home, they've sent an unsolicited 'repayment' to me by Venmo.
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They told Mr. Lander and his colleagues that a contractor working on the electrical system had gone home for the day and couldn't return until Monday.
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In fact, it has more in common with narrative-focused indie games like Gone Home and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture than the rest of From's catalog.
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ESPN reported a possible replacement would be Northern Illinois, but the Huskies would need to know soon because students have gone home and some have graduated. CBSSports.
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There's a turning point, after all the late night people have gone home, before the early morning risers head to work, when things start to feel weird.
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The shift to a first-person perspective, combined with a relatively slow pace, gives a feeling reminiscent of narrative-focused indie games like Firewatch and Gone Home.
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Instead, she claims to have gone home and made a PowerPoint presentation about the rich history of strikingly beautiful and powerful androgynous performers throughout music's rich history.
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Poor Keo though, since he's gone home early in past seasons, he admitted that his heart was racing like crazy until we found out we were safe.
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Tacoma Departing from the tone, style, and planet of their highly acclaimed game Gone Home, The Fullbright Company have shot into outer space to bring us Tacoma.
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Also out now is LawBreakers, a new online shooter from the Gears of War creator, and Tacoma, a story-driven journey from the team behind Gone Home.
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Richard and Catherine's graves feature markers — his says "At rest," while hers says "Gone home to rest," according to The State, a newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina.
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The bad teams have gone home, and each of the sixteen surviving squads heads into battle with a set roster and a specific opponent in its sights.
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When Mr. Groberg walked out the door to run an errand, Ms. Zarin thought he had gone home, and she soon departed, more than a bit disappointed.
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In comparison to the tense feeling of exploring the dark, spooky house in Gone Home, the spacious environment in Tacoma had me feeling cool, calm, and collected.
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"That's definitely when the term 'walking sim' entered my consciousness," said Johnnemann Nordhagen, who added that Gone Home got "swept up" in the wave of misogynist hatred.
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For the Abby and Danielle storyline, I believe our lead level designer, Rich Wilson took some inspiration from Gone Home when he initially conceived of the idea.
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Though he could have gone home in 1944 having completed 35 successful missions, Joe Jr. decided to stay on for one more mission — an experimental one, at that.
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Gone Home garnered a lot of praise for exploring an ordinary family's life, and for its references to popular culture, including a quasi-soundtrack of Riot Grrrl songs.
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Like its predecessor Gone Home, which imagined a sister snooping through her family's rooms, dresser drawers, and personal crises, Tacoma turns shameless snooping into mission-critical detective work.
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Despite warnings from the military and indications of mined areas scribbled on walls, some long-displaced residents impatient to rebuild their lives have gone home, with deadly consequences.
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All similarities to its oft-compared Gone Home begin and end with the basic structure—yes, you are walking through a house, looking at details, reading notes, etc.
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And I recommend taking that approach to it, so that it takes on an almost movie-like quality, much like Virginia and Gone Home have in the past.
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Danika welcomes Steve Gaynor of Fullbright—the studio behind Gone Home and the upcoming Tacoma—onto the show to talk E3 excitement, fans, and setting games in space.
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She said Falwell told the city the school would remain open for on-campus international students who had not gone home, some lab classes and its aviation school.
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There are are number of beloved games on here, among them Proteus, PANORAMICAL, The Novelist, Longest Night, Read Only Memories, and Gone Home, alongside dozens of other projects.
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You can't talk about Tacoma without talking about Gone Home; Tacoma builds upon the gameplay structure established in Fullbright's first game, but plays with it in different ways.
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I say emotional capacity because after playing Gone Home, my heart was full, my emotions drained (in a good way), and my entire queer being felt… so much.
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Now that the tourists have gone home, COVID-19 has found a fertile breeding ground in Louisiana's population, which includes the sickest and poorest people in the nation.
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Roberta drifts off while watching a Woody Allen film with a boy she's gone home with; when she wakes beneath his fumbling body, her thoughts become abstract, polyhedrous.
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Thailand has recorded 42 coronavirus cases since January, 30 of those have recovered and gone home and 11 are still being treated in hospitals, according to the department.
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Earlier this month, Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue in Nashville, Tennessee revealed that their 18-year-old shelter dog Poochie had gone home with the couple on Feb. 9.
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Bleak weather surrounded the empty Greenbriar house in Gone Home, obscuring the outside world; and in Tacoma, it's the vastness of space that disconnects your experience from anyone else.
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Where Gone Home had players navigating an empty house in the Pacific Northwest, piecing together the narrative of its absent family, Tacoma is set in a more isolated home.
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Held at the very end of the conference on a Sunday morning, when many have usually gone home, hundreds of people packed the room to hear the harrowing tale.
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The bankers working on what was supposed to be the world's largest initial public offer (IPO) have not only gone home for the summer; they may never come back.
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But, imagine a mansion with the depth of storytelling and atmosphere of something like Gone Home, only with the occasional corridor full of zombies for you to tear through?
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Despite being exposed as a naked, unconstitutional power grab, that process may come to a close as soon as the Olympics end—once the international press has gone home.
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She'd gone home for winter break and when she visited her father, the woman he'd chosen over her mother was conveniently visiting her own mother with their love child.
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It's also part of a growing trend of games, like Gone Home or Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, that emphasize characters, story, and setting over just about everything else.
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In July, four months after the protest started—and after the students had gone home for the summer—the manager of the Greensboro store quietly integrated his lunch counter.
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But the animals — such as the small, diseased pigs Jurgis is paid to process at work after the inspectors have gone home — exist on the page with affecting precision.
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Having served his time in Afghanistan, our fellow-American had gone home, fallen in love, got married, and had the two bow-haired daughters now hiding behind his legs.
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Today, some of those called aren't present: Maybe they've gone home, maybe they've found another way to cross, maybe they've decided to stay in Mexico, maybe it's something worse.
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At the start of this year, I wrote about What Never Was, a first-person puzzle game similar to Myst or Gone Home, though on a much smaller scale.
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In July, four months after the protest started – and after the students had gone home for the summer – the manager of the Greensboro store quietly integrated his lunch counter.
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As a specific example, there's a guy named Nick up in Idaho and he's a boomerang, which is one of us from one of these centers who's gone home.
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Set in the mid-1990s, "Gone Home" also doubles as a great game for people who really like riot grrrl punk music and other nostalgic artifacts from the era.
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Over recent years, multiple members of larger studios have departed to pursue their own passion projects (Firewatch, The Flame in the Flood, and Gone Home to name a few).
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As many of us have experienced many times when we've gone home for the holidays, sometimes you end up returning with a bit more stuff than you left with.
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"We say it's an immersive experience that has elements of a lot of different things," Lantz explains, citing escape rooms and games like Firewatch and Gone Home as vital influences.
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Exploration games don't feel as groundbreaking now as they did when Gone Home was released in 2013, and Tacoma station isn't as unique as Gone Home's quiet Pacific Northwest home.
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She'd drunk a little more than she should have, but she had gone home with Marquis-Boire and cuddled platonically with him a "million times" before, and felt perfectly safe.
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It seems a lot like Gone Home, if you were a fan of that personal narrative, exploration heavy game, though Campo Santo is probably a little sick of that comparison.
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It's smaller, independent games like Gone Home and Her Story—made by teams of four and one respectively—that are expanding the definition of what a video game can be.
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Too many times, I've walked into a party with a DTF mindset, only to get sucked into the music for hours, emerging only after all the hotties have gone home.
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It possessed him at Minneapolis Central High School: all those hours in the music room, his already-high-teased hair nodding over the keys, after his friends had gone home.
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Witnesses told Serbia's state television that the attacker had seen his ex-wife at the cafe with a group of friends, then had gone home and returned with a gun.
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The 10,000 specialists from across California and four other states — Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Texas — who assisted in the search for human remains have gone home, Sheriff Honea said.
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The gallbladder removal that Max describes likely cost significantly more than a standard laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and the patient would have gone home two hours after the operation in either case.
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Yet since 2014, more walking sims, like The Beginner's Guide, What Remains of Edith Finch, Virginia, and Tacoma (the Fullbright Company's follow-up to Gone Home) have become critical hits.
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A shadowy figure fades in and out of view on the rocky shores of Dear Esther, and Gone Home fakes players out by leaving clues that the house is haunted.
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But the test of a march's long-term efficacy, she said, is whether it energizes participants long after they've gone home, sustaining them through the less exciting aspects of change.
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But while the BioShock games do often keep their protagonists distanced from non-player characters, those who aren't trying to kill them at least, Gone Home and Tacoma remove them entirely.
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It's totally fine if an element of someone's identity is part of a character's journey in the story—look at Gone Home, for example—but it doesn't always need to be.
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I arrived at La Taberna at nine, after my politicians had gone home for the day, and sat at the end of a long table in the back, near the radiator.
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If the white supremacists were marching with torches and making obnoxious statements and nasty things and they had just done that and gone home, how much violence would there have been?
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Octavi Navarro's The Librarian is a bit like Gone Home in this respect, but mashed together with a classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure game like Maniac Mansion or Monkey Island.
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The countries with the highest number of foreign fighters included Jordan at 21,2500 (around 250 returned), France at 1,910 with 271 back and Morocco at 1,623 with 13 having gone home.
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In 2013, Tacoma developer the Fullbright Company released the seminal Gone Home, a breakthrough game that further cemented a genre disparagingly called "walking simulators" as a valid style of interactive storytelling.
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"I JUST THINK IT'S CRAZY HOW he and his family could have gone home any time that summer but we somehow were on the exact same flight both times," she wrote.
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She'd gone home to take care of her older daughter, all the while worrying about the baby boy whom she'd left the previous night at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta hospital.
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Three hours later, just about everyone at the firm—there are eleven other lawyers, along with paralegals and assistants—had deposited their coffee mugs in the office kitchen and gone home.
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You're not controlling who you see in the third person, as you might in an Uncharted game, and you're not the person's own eyes, as you might be in Gone Home.
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A resident of the city reached by telephone said there were believed to be no casualties there apart from the attacker, as worshippers had already gone home to break their fasts.
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One wounded student, Ahteshan ul-Haq, told Reuters there are usually 400 students in the university hostel, but many had gone home for the holiday, leaving only about 120 there Friday.
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Protester numbers were low: many had gone home for Eid-al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday starting the next day, and heavy rain knocked out the lights at the protest site.
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Fans became accustomed to seeing the sisters compete against each other only at the very end of tournaments, when all the other would-be champions had packed up and gone home.
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Dear Esther, Gone Home, Fugue In Void, What Remains Of Edith Finch, The Beginner's Guide, and the extensive work of my frequent collaborator Connor Sherlock are all typical of the genre.
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"Johnnemann Nordhagen, founder of Dim Bulb (Where the Water Tastes Like Wine), co-founder of Fullbright (Gone Home) "Most game devs are fairly like-minded when it comes to finding practical solutions.
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And as soon as all the hot cider's been swilled, and the snow starts to melt, and the guests have all gone home, get your gift receipts together and start making moves.
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He came to this, I suspect because I had gone home with him that night in high heels and hot pants without knowing his last name, or batting a mascara-laden eyelid.
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"I've never gone home with somebody to find they have an on-the-floor mattress, but I would be somewhat perturbed by it," said a close friend, who wished to remain anonymous.
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They portrayed the phone logs as murky, while also stressing that those same records, if credible, suggested that Mr. Khattala had gone home hours before the mortar attack on the C.I.A. annex.
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The weekend had come, and the American workers had gone home; the North Korean hackers had either gotten very lucky with the timing of their operation or had planned it remarkably well.
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The nameless title character is on an extended assignment to police the first lunar colony — but there's nothing to police, since almost everyone has already given up and gone home to Earth.
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Obra Dinn plays out like a 3D exploration game — think Gone Home or Firewatch — where you view things from a first-person perspective and your options for interacting with the world are limited.
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Fortnite (iOS) Fortnite (Android) Five years ago Gone Home helped popularize a new kind of game, utilizing the perspective of a first-person shooter, but offering a more narrative-focused, violence-free experience.
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Eldest son Matt Brown, 34, was alone in Brownton approximately two months ago when an explosion raised red flags for the show's production team, who had gone home for the day hours earlier.
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EgyptAir has put up the families of dead passengers and crew members in two hotels near Cairo's airport but many have gone home to receive condolences for the loss of their loved ones.
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A pillar of the genre that would go on to be called, both derisively and lovingly, the "walking simulator," Gone Home shares as much DNA with BioShock as it does with Dear Esther.
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We see this every year: in Gone Home, Journey, Actual Sunlight, The Last of Us, Spec Ops: The Line, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Life Is Strange, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.
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It builds intelligently on what the studio did in Gone Home: refining the after-the-fact story and the way a player discovers it by moving at their own pace through a believable space.
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Discussed: Life is Strange 2, Life is Strange, Gone Home, Night in the Woods, The X-Files, Daria, Twilight, Harry Potter, Gossip Girl, The Hunger Games, Donut County, The Last of Us: Left Behind.
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But just like action-packed first-person shooters helped pioneer the mechanics that would show up in smaller narrative games like Gone Home, cracking swordfighting could open up all kinds of new VR experiences.
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It was the self-mocking joke Riley could tell and they both could enjoy after Wade, having gone home again following unfulfilling detours to Chicago and Cleveland, was given the send-off he deserved.
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It's not like such stories hadn't been told before—queer creators had been doing so long before Gone Home came along—but it was likely the first time a lot of people encountered one.
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But had he been able to examine and contest the logic of the Compas system to prove that its score gave a distorted picture of his life, he might have gone home much earlier.
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In an elevator ride, maybe you'd say that Outer Wilds is Majora's Mask's time-loop meets the epistolary storytelling of Gone Home meets the golden age sci-fi cover aesthetics of No Man's Sky.
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Initially the game calls to mind narrative-driven experiences like Gone Home and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, which both involve exploring a recently emptied space to learn about the people who once lived there.
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Suddenly, we had all sorts of experiences, from Save the Date where you had to rescue your date from getting killed, to Gone Home, to Jurassic Heart where you try to date a T-Rex.
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While Gone Home had you piece a story together from objects found inside a middle-class mansion, the stakes seem noticeably higher aboard the Tacoma, a sprawling space-station 200,000 miles away, and completely abandoned.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted that most abortions don't result in a complication, and when they do it generally happens after the patient has gone home, meaning she would seek care at her local hospital.
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Responders from 18 countries came to Mexico to help, but with the search for survivors down to four sites most of them had gone home, with Americans and Israelis among the few to remain, Puente said.
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If I'm trying to describe a certain kind of game, one where you wander, examine objects, and use them to mentally piece together a story, 2013's Gone Home is the first example I reach for.
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" Symantec added, "It would appear that the attack was timed to occur after most staff had gone home for the weekend in the hope of reducing the chance of discovery before maximum damage could be caused.
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I would say that this is one of the strongest, most talented casts we've had in years, so it was a really tough competition and I think anyone could have gone home – that's how tight it is.
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A Normal Lost Phone has echoes of Gone Home, where you're exploring your family's disheveled house, or Her Story, in which you take on the role of a detective searching for old clips in a police archive.
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Thomas had briefly gone home to Chicago to get away from the heartache New Orleans brought, but he said coming back and being with teammates from the time he played for the Saints was bringing him strength.
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Grandpa Egg Waffle is retired but in need of extra money, so he sells egg waffles off a portable cart outside a busy metro station after 7 PM. "It's after the police have gone home," he explained.
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Read more:How the 'failed' quarantine of the Diamond Princess cruise ship started with 10 coronavirus cases and ended with more than 700More than 100 Americans who were on the Diamond Princess cruise ship have finally gone home.
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Much of China's work force of more than 700 million people had gone home to celebrate the Lunar New Year when the coronavirus outbreak began, and then were unable to return to the cities where they worked.
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"They've got a huge advantage because they've got N.H.L. guys, they've got guys that have gone home to play," said Corey Hirsch, the goaltender for Canada's silver-medal-winning team at the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway.
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I stopped going to the bar afterwards—something I previously loved doing— in case he was there, preferring to lock myself in the office of the student paper with friends until I was sure he had gone home.
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Tacoma recognizes this, and, like its predecessor Gone Home (Fullbright's 2013 breakout hit), it places the player in a position of only relative action—the player isn't there to save the world, only to explore and understand it.
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The game ends, but by the time Rishton and I have finished chatting about his time as an engineer—and the fact he's only been in this job three weeks—the shutters are down and everyone's gone home.
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"Occupied", "do not enter", "home of an Angolan": The writing remains visible on the wrecked houses belonging to Congolese who have gone home as Angola has clamped down on illegal diamond mines and the migrants who worked them.
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While some of the platform's users have already mobilized into quality-control groups, a particularly vocal faction is vehemently against certain titles they deem to not be "real" games, including calmer, gun-free experiences like Gone Home and Firewatch.
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The payoff here is high, but it's more challenging to pull off than a straightforward horror game, and arguably even tougher than writing something like Gone Home, which had the immediate benefit of novelty and nostalgia on its side.
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"The biggest problem is with the biometric machines, there are some sites where they're not working and a lot of voters have been discouraged and have gone home," said Nasibullah Sayedi, a voter in the western city of Herat.
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But it is in the evening hours, after "the girls" in Trump Tower have gone home for the day or Trump is in his hotel room on the road that his account takes on something of a different life.
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There's a lot of games you can view as foundational to walking simulators, but one of the major works, Gone Home, was made by with my Fulbright, a bunch of people with lots of immersive sim chops and experience.
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Designer Johnnemann Nordhagen never heard the term until GamerGate supporters began using it to describe the game he'd worked on, Gone Home, which was emblematic of what GamerGaters hated most: slow, small, thoughtful, centered on a queer woman's story.
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Writing for the Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan, whose interrogations of gender are as welcome by young feminists as hymnals are by atheists, was the first to wonder why Grace, pushed beyond her point of interest, had not simply gone home.
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One New Hampshire GOP official, who declined to be named in order to speak freely ahead of the primary race here, suggested that Trump would not have had to cancel his event had he not gone home to New York.
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But Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the demand meant Britain would have to cut "a little over 50" more of its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia on top of the 23 diplomats who have already gone home.
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But in November, after the ballots have been counted and the crowds have gone home, we will still have a country to share, and I fear it may be a harsher and more fragile society because of Trump's campaigning today.
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Friday File If Hillary Rodham had gone home and flipped on the TV after she delivered her Wellesley commencement address in the spring of 1969, how might she have seen the changing roles of American women reflected in popular entertainment?
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In fact, I could've gone home the day before if I hadn't failed a bladder ultrasound (the nurses would periodically ultrasound my bladder to make sure all my pee was getting out; being hospitalized is a very dignified experience, all told).
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By all means, people are still suffering for coming out, the legislative and cultural gains made by the queer movement have not been evenly felt across all demographics, and the bigots haven't just packed up their placards and gone home.
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Plus a lot of people had gone home because it was a long weekend, so we had to get in contact with people who were away to tell them they might have some room damage because someone left their sink on.
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"When it came to Gone Home, other characters were never really on the table, because we knew we weren't capable of it," says Fullbright co-founder Karla Zimonja, when I ask if the studio's breakthrough was always designed with isolation in mind.
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Gone Home is a tender story about a family divided by a daughter's love for another girl, seen through her sister's eyes—previously PC only, it came out for Xbox and PlayStation 4 in February, and you'll finish it in about two hours.
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine — the debut release from Dim Bulb Games, a studio founded by Gone Home co-creator Johnnemann Nordhagen — is an experience that is entirely about stories: telling them, finding them, and seeing the ways they change over time.
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I could have eaten only soup and gone home satisfied: osh-potche, each spoonful of liquid fat clinging to the tongue; mastava, the Uzbek counterpart to Georgian kharcho, thick with rice and tomatoes, its warmth radiating along the ribs; shurpa, exhaling dill.
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On Monday, junior tennis players from countries including South Africa, Egypt, Denmark, Thailand and the United States were still competing at the Harare Sports Club, days after international election monitors had gone home and troops and riot police had left downtown Harare.
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Carol, a beautiful, aching period romance starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, may have gone home empty-handed at Saturday's 2016 Independent Spirit Awards – but it did earn a different high honor: An awards show parody video starring Saturday Night Live's Kate McKinnon.
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Titles like Firewatch and Gone Home take a fraction of the cost, time, and team size to develop, and their short stories are likely to stick in the player's brain longer than the latest open-world RPG sticks in their console's disc drive.
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I was the level of poor that meant I'd scour the car park once everyone had gone home, collect up all the cigarette butts and empty the tobacco from each into my pouch so I'd have a little bit left to smoke.
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Tacoma, from Gone Home studio Fullbright, draws on the game's eerie ghost sequences to let players reconstruct the last days of an abandoned space station, using a complex augmented reality interface inspired partly by the non-traditional stage production Sleep No More.
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Using a smartphone app or voice control device like an Amazon Echo, you can have the option of an array of colors then, with the swipe of a finger, turn on the bright lights to clean up detritus once everybody has gone home.
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TMZ broke the story ... Olivia was on Rick Caruso's yacht in the Bahamas with his daughter when the indictment news broke ... Caruso -- the Chairman of USC's Board of Trustees -- tells us that Olivia is no longer on his yacht, and has since gone home.
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Jackets dominate Jets in 2600-217 win WINNIPEG, Manitoba — If the Tuesday game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Winnipeg Jets were a UFC match, the home side would have tapped out and everybody could have gone home before the second period was over.
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The Collection's second game also includes the much-loved Minerva's Den story add-on — the design of which was led by Gone Home creator Steve Gaynor — and the Protector Trials add-on, which lets players suit up as one of the game's fearsome Big Daddys.
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When you don't have office rhythms to mark the passage of time, it's very easy to lose track of your evening entirely and find yourself sitting in total darkness and Slacking your co-workers well after the time you normally would have gone home.
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Long after his staff has gone home, long after the lights have gone out elsewhere around the capital, the besieged 45th president hunkers down in the upstairs residential portion of the Executive Mansion venting his frustration and cheering on his defenders through social media blasts.
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The label has been more or less embraced by the people who develop games within these loose confines, and it has led to some of the medium's most affecting works: Firewatch, Gone Home, Proteus, and Devotion, to name a few of the more prominent examples.
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The patients from the morning had gone home, and two new ones were in the room: a former policewoman who had been hit on the head by a bale of hay, and a boy, lying immobile, who doesn't remember how he fell from a balcony.
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Most of the seminary's students have gone home because of the war, but Edwina Morrow (a subdued Dunst) has stayed on as a teacher, and a cadre of other girls remains, stranded by the dangerous situation in their own hometowns across the war-torn South.
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It's smaller in scale compared to Gone Home — in What Never Was you only have access to a single attic, as opposed to a whole house — but the attic still feels like a real, lived-in place that's full of information that's waiting to be uncovered.
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In an interview with The Associated Press — his first one-on-one with a news outlet since the shooting — Michael McGlockton said that if the law didn&apost exist, his son might have gone home the night of July 19, or Drejka might have been arrested.
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At Campo Santo, Vanaman worked with his former Walking Dead writing and design partner Jake Rodkin, programmer Will Armstrong (Bioshock 2, The Bureau), designer and programmer Nels Anderson (Mark of the Ninja), animator James Benson (Ori and the Blind Forest), Gone Home composer Chris Remo, and others.
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Whether it's an after-hours dinner, post-drink snack, or a just-because midnight feast, the joys of dining late are many: everyone with kids has long gone home, the distractions of daytime can wait until tomorrow, and the only focus is good food and good company.
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Dear Esther, Tacoma, The Stanley Parable, 30 Flights Of Loving, Proteus, Gone Home, Virginia, The Beginner's Guide, The Magic Circle, and Everybody's Gone To The Rapture all hold onto pieces of what came before while trying to augment and change things in very specific and delimited ways.
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Gone Home reminded me of the rush I got being around a girl I liked, the sadness I felt when my parents didn't support me at first, and the way my heart felt more full than ever before after falling in love with my now girlfriend.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - More than a dozen Chinese workers at a 'Belt and Road' train project in Malaysia who had gone home to Wuhan for the Lunar New Year have been told not to return until further notice, head of the project owner said on Friday.
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You do not know true sadness until you've gone home with a man because "it might be a good idea," realized they wear a kimono around the house, woken up to their snoring dad-bod, and cried silently while trying to slip out from under their arm.
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Things start on a spacey gospel note, with "Connected by Love" — a song that gives the impression that it's going to be hopeful, but whose lyrics turn out to be more aligned with the thoughts of male fragility from a mind you wish you'd never gone home with.
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In a culture where action, fantasy, and male sexuality predominate, the fact Gone Home ever made it to launch, let alone sold enough to earn the attention of Microsoft and Sony, which are now hosting the game on their respective consoles, remains to my mind a small miracle.
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As Shireen Ahmed wrote in Time before the tournament, the fact that the most powerful teams in the world are fighting battles over equality speaks volumes about the struggles of those who have gone home, especially those from Africa, Central and South Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 (Reuters) - More than a dozen Chinese workers at a 'Belt and Road' train project in Malaysia who had gone home to Wuhan for the Lunar New Year have been told not to return until further notice, head of the project owner said on Friday.
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By the time we finally got to the school house, we were six hours late, and expected everyone to have gone home, but they were all there on the front porch waiting for us, cheering us on as we turned into the parking lot and sank into a foot of mud.
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There are other online services like Postpartum Support International (PSI) and the Bloom Foundation, which both provide a sort of digital network and resources for new moms, but Hanna believes it is that missing link to medical professionals after mom has gone home from the hospital that really makes a difference.
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The empty twilight interior "Boston Library" (2017) — its dark vaulted reading room drained of its purpose, its staff and readers gone home — is filled with strange night lights dimly lit along the walls, while the crepuscular gleam of sky, painted a deep, heart-stopping blue, is glimpsed through the windows.
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Previews at Game Informer and Polygon have been positive, but there's plenty riding on Tacoma to prove that Gone Home wasn't a one-hit wonder for its makers—and the same can be said of imminent Myst-inspired puzzler The Witness, Jonathan Blow's first game after the runaway success of Braid.
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Let's start with an excerpt from Bogost, prompted by this week's What Remains of Edith Finch, an adventure game (or "walking simulator") in the vein of Gone Home: It should be said that Bogost similarly riled folks up in 2015, with a piece arguing that video games are better without characters.
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Advisers from the United Arab Emirates have gone home, frustrated by an ossified bureaucracy and a knucklehead leadership that thinks Egypt needs no advice from upstart Gulfies—mere "semi-states" that have "money like rice", as Mr Sisi and his aides are heard to say in a leaked audio tape.
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"Trump said if there had been the kerfuffle about the stairs and the press, he would have just stayed on the plane and gone home," she said, seeking to portray Mr. Trump as a petulant child, while citing her own dealings with China during her time at the State Department.
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Dealers said the pound's almost 4-cent surge in the previous session, half of it in U.S. trading time after London dealers had gone home, had likely cleared out a large portion of the record bearish bets against the currency that have dominated trading since the Brexit referendum last June.
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He agrees that placing extra characters into a game like Edith Finch or Gone Home requires an incredible amount of effort—and he experienced this first-hand, when the addition of just a few, brief glimpses of other characters in Edith Finch took a member of the studio a long time to create.
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" Indeed, says her cardiologist Holly Andersen, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center: "Had she gone home, that 90 percent blockage could have become 100 percent and she could have suffered a significant heart attack or even sudden death.
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Before, first person games either treated the game as if it was a single camera shot, like in Half-Life or Gone Home; or they had cutscenes that broke from the first person perspective where the player is able to see the character they are normally controlling, like in Wolfenstein: The New Order.
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Ascribing various mental states to different kinds of alcohol is an old excuse that's been around forever: Some say it was the whiskey that made them throw their drink at a fellow patron, or that there's no way they would have gone home with that coworker if it weren't for that second glass of pinot.
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During Johnson's Presidency, journalists from all over the United States, from every major magazine and newspaper (and a lot of minor ones), had come to the Hill Country, had spent three or four days there (or as much as a week), and had gone home to explain this remote place to the rest of America.
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Read more:Professor Scott Galloway says young people should take advantage of the dip in the market to invest in companies temporarily affected — like Carnival CruisesWild video shows a military helicopter dropping coronavirus test kits to the Grand Princess cruise shipMore than 100 Americans who were on the Diamond Princess cruise ship have finally gone home.
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But I hope Fullbright can apply its new formula to a far stronger story, the same way that French studio Dontnod built the excellent narrative game Life is Strange from a system in its flawed predecessor Remember Me. If Gone Home helped convince people that games could tell serious stories, Tacoma shows that they can tell elegant ones, too.
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There are plenty of games that have brought in gay or trans characters without batting an eye, such as Gone Home, Undertale or even Ultra Street Fighter IV. Or there are titles that don't judge players if they pair off characters of the same or differing genders, like Dragon Age: Inquisition or the upcoming Fire Emblem: Fates Forever.
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In my experience—which isn't that of Most People Who Play Games, of course, as this is my job so my turnover of titles is fairly high, and properly digging into anything takes serious commitment—it's rare to finish a very linear game, be that a Gone Home or an Uncharted 2, and want to play it again.
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Pelosi added during an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" that she could have "gone home" if Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE had been elected president in 2016.
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We've seen it asked of Gone Home, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, That Dragon, Cancer, and many more titles before now—and, as the medium develops, it's a discussion that'll appear more frequently around new titles that go somewhere new with their style, playing out almost more like interactive films than what's typically regarded as a video game.
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"I knew that every prisoner the Vietnamese tried to break, those who had arrived before me and those who would come after me, would be taunted with the story of how an admiral's son had gone home early, a lucky beneficiary of America's class-conscious society," McCain recalled in "Faith of My Fathers," his 1999 memoir.
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Just as no one builds a multi-billion dollar empire without some sort of savage determination and intense will to power (otherwise they would have stopped at some earlier point, taken their winnings and gone home), no one accumulates power and then declines to use it in the face of existential threats—of which Thiel counted Gawkeras one to his business interests.
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He has heard all of that, and then he has gone home, and he has flicked open his social media accounts and been confronted with all of that wordless, inchoate abuse given form: strangers, anonymous and legion, wishing all manner of ills on him and his family because he has misplaced a pass or shot from range or lost possession.
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I've long thought the likes of Gone Home and Firewatch — subdued experiences that drive the player forward simply by placing them in a world of intrigue — held far more potential for mainstream storytelling than the standard action-game formula of shootouts broken up by non-interactive cutscenes, and it feels like Uncharted 4 has taken inspiration from how indie games have learned to hold the player's interest.
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At night in the ghostly White House, when Ivanka and Jared have gone home, and Trump's consiglieri have retired to their Russian salads, the gold-robed president — crazed as Lear on the cliffs "fantastically dressed with wildflowers" — wanders from room to room staring at TV screens, cursing in frustration when he cannot find the remote, hurling abuse at the "enemies of the people" who fail to genuflect daily before his genius, adjusting his hair, making random calls to aides to ensure they have scheduled his next play dates with truckers and coal miners.
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The Democrat's recent decision to filibuster an eminently qualified Supreme Court nominee and force Republicans to employ the nuclear option to confirm Gorsuch is a perfect example of what can best be described as playground politics at its lowest, and if President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE and the new Republican-controlled Congress are going to deliver on their ambitious agenda then they should know there won't be any help from Democrats — they've taken their marbles and gone home.
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