Ahoy dear users,

A game about a loyal sysop gone mad,
His hellish creation come to life,
A journey he can now only guide others to...

Insomnia is a real-time multiplayer adventure game developed back in 2020 by Shooter Jennings.
He's a musician, fellow sysop, and one of the few remaining BBS fanatics.

It's a terribly fun game, requiring many months to beat. Players compete in real-time(NOT TURN BASED), and can attack each other while also assisting each other in gameplay. It has some really unique gameplay elements that AAA games can't use.

For instance, to get past a portion of the game, you must collect a certain number of tokens, each of which require some trial. Pretty standard stuff, except that one token only has A SINGLE instance in the entire game. If you collect it, it leaves your inventory when you log off and someone else can pick it up. It only moves when a player moves it, or when it is used to clear the objective, resetting back to it's original position. Cool things like simply can't exist in AAA games without complete anarchy
among playerbases.

I don't want to spoil it, and the game comes shipped with a guide and emails from it's "creator" when you open it up. Here's some more reading/documentary stuff for you to digest before you start.

https://breakintochat.com/wiki/1NS0MN1A - BBS wiki article

MAIN/VIDEOCLIPS/insomniahigh.mp4 - High-res interview with the developer (8.6 mb)
MAIN/VIDEOCLIPS/insomnialow.mp4 - Low-res interview with the developer (watermarked) (4.6 mb)

USERS CAN ONLY DOWNLOAD 10mb A DAY

http://isvincent.gay/insomniahigh.mp4 - Download mirror for users with non-modem internet or a browser (Doesn't use credits)

To play, simply head over to e[X]ternal programs and find Gateways -> Insomnia(and more)
Insomnia isn't actually a standalone binary, but like the rest of Jennings games, is hosted on a central dedicated machine for global play. You'll need to make an account(Just for the game server, not his entire BBS) and be respectful when using the multiplayer communication features. YOU GUYS REPRESENT GLITCHNET. If you'd prefer, he details how to join his network directly in his interview videos, but I recommend cross-connection through GlitchNet so that we can see if you are playing or not.

YOU WILL NEED AN ANSI-COMPLIANT TERMINAL LIKE SYNCTERM OR THE WEB VERSION TO USE INSOMNIA
PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE!

Voting to keep or lose this game will open in a week and run for a week. Please give it a go and let me know what you think with your own game review in this here board.

Happy gaming,

- Your local Sysop, _ _ _ _____ ____ ______
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|___/ Owner of Wii Club, Calculator Programmer, C Dev