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SUPER READ SYSTEM's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #4 | 4.017 | 4.400 |
| Usability (how enjoyable/interesting it would be to use the device) | #5 | 4.017 | 4.400 |
| Presentation (quality of the art/writing) | #6 | 3.651 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #6 | 3.971 | 4.350 |
| Theme (how well the submission fits the jam) | #7 | 4.199 | 4.600 |
Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I really like text games and I think it's really awesome how you have designed a whole console around playing them. I think the trumpet-like cone on the bottom is very charming and makes me wish I could time travel to 2008 to get one. I also love how you included your sketches and thought process.
Thanks so much! I'm not an engineer or a technician but I have a fascination towards unusual gadgets so this project was a fun drawing exercise for me!
An e-reader for interactive fiction is just the kind of niche idea you’d see on indiegogo or kickstarter back when e-readers were booming. And the irony of it being a foldable console with a rigid stand that sticks out from it all the time is absolute gold. “How did this ever make it into production? What were they thinking?”
But honestly, as someone who has considered buying a PS Vita specifically for visual novels, I would totally buy something like this just for that sweet e-ink battery life.
Hi! When coming up ideas on how one is even supposed to play games on this console, at first I entertained the idea of a small keyboard so 'players' would play those kinds of adventure games that require written commands before I turned more towards the 'e-reader but for like text adventures visual novels and stuff'.
Also extra fun fact: I added the 'download cable' idea after looking up information Silent Hill play novels (or Play novel: Silent Hill as was the more accurate title), and I briefly thought adding a fake, colored screenshot of a made up game to the SRS screen (Silent Hill play novel style), but I wasn't sure if I had enough time to do it since real life has been happening. Maybe later!
Yessss I love the design choices here
The handle is the kind of gimmick that seems plausible because of some CEO who knows nothing about handheld gaming thinking it would make it "stick out" from the competition :D
Haha thanks for the comment!
And yeah that was the idea! As you probably already noticed from my sketches on the page, I entertained the idea the handle being on one side (and maybe advertise that a handle for left handed is coming soon!) before I went back to the middle :D even when knowing this a made up device and I'm not an engineer of any kind, I still ended thinking 'okay maybe that's too impractical???'. This was a fun project to do :)