A look at Roller Drama, a brilliant visual novel.
It's a wonderfully strange thing. In Roller Drama you play as a coach to a roller derby team. You play the matches - which are brilliant and tactical and exhausting, and I have yet to finish one without someone on the team dropping on the track out of sheer knackerdness - and in between you knock around the house you all live in together, solving surreal little puzzles and talking to a ghost who looks a bit like Shakespeare.
It's rare for a game with this many pieces to fully click, I think. But Roller Drama is clicking for me. And that's because I like the hectic, thoughtful spin on a sport I can barely comprehend, and also because this game, I think, is secretly something very coherent and very welcome. It's secretly an absolutely stellar houseshare simulation.
Testify. It's not just that you and your team live in this house together. It's that the game is alive to the awkwardness and endless nuance of living in a house with a lot of other people. I am the middle of five children myself, and I've also houseshared a lot over the years, and I love and recognise loads of the little things about this game.
Most of all I love the doors. Games are great at doors, aren't they? And Roller Drama's may be amongst my favourite yet. On one of the game's weird quests, I'll find myself going to chat to someone - say Anne, on the top floor.
I'm reading The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane at the moment, a page or two here in between a few minutes with Roller Drama, and some interesting synergies crop up. On the bus this afternoon I was reading MacFarlane's thoughts about the need for a term for transition spaces - spaces where one moves from a"known" landscape into something else,"somewhere we feel and think significantly differently.
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