{"id":233,"date":"2007-10-22T13:44:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/233"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T18:54:52","slug":"ifcomp-2007-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/233","title":{"rendered":"IFComp 2007: Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas story by Edward Floren.  Spoilers follow the break.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo, what we have here is a short work comprising two stories about a lonely nine-year-old girl named Sarah.  There&#8217;s a noninteractive story about her grandfather visiting for Christmas and suffering a heart attack or something similar, and alternating with that, an interactive but highly linear fantasy (possibly dream sequences, since a couple of the cut-scenes begin with Sarah waking up) about a journey to an island (a very clear symbol of her isolation).  I suppose <a href=\"http:\/\/ifwiki.org\/index.php\/Photopia\">Photopia<\/a> is the obvious comparison here, especially with the hint of meeting an older version of herself toward the end, but unlike that work, <em>Wish<\/em> backs off from tragedy at the last minute with the somewhat worrying message that you can make anything happen by wishing hard enough.<\/p>\n<p>There are some nice ideas here, but it didn&#8217;t quite come together for me.  The fantasy sequences are apparently how Sarah achieves her wish, but I really don&#8217;t see how that works, causally or symbolically.  There&#8217;s also a bit of a subplot involving collecting Christmas-themed wearables, which doesn&#8217;t seem to affect anything and is only pursued for its own sake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 4<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas story by Edward Floren. Spoilers follow the break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[84,53,182],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-if","tag-if","tag-ifcomp","tag-ifcomp-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}