Publisher Digital Jokers has announced their first game for Apple’s hot new electronic leash, an adaptation of their point-and-click adventure entitled Call of Cthulhu: Darkness Within. You’ll excuse my skepticism, but I’ll be interested to hear if this will even prove functional on an iPhone or Touch. One can only hope that the game isn’t of the “pixel-hunt” variety, as searching for that one, particular place to click is frustrating enough on a full sized monitor using a mouse, never mind on a three inch screen using one’s finger. I predict sanity crushing frustration, marked by the rainbow trails of greasy fingerprints and the gnashing of teeth.
Of the four of us here at Ectomo I am the odd man out. While I may now have my very own, specially tailored, Asteriskpunk I am, far and away, the most technologically backwards. While John and Eliza multitask and network furiously on their ultra hip Apple laptops, Qais is busy overseeing a massive RAID configuration chock full of more digital information than any one human can absorb in their lifetime, all while a legion of Roombas do his bidding.
They sneer mercilessly at my bewilderment of social networking chicanery and internet rigmarole. They condescend to send me e-mail –a word I even punctuate like a Luddite– when they would much prefer to IM or send by some other, newfangled web based telegraphy. In a world of constant connectivity, where my peers are swiftly and easily integrating mobile communication into their daily lives while practically breeding it into their offspring I hope to be the last remaining person or, at the very least, the last of my generation without a cellphone.
Eliza has a problem. Due to an inner ear infection, a belly full of Red Bull, a pair of 14 inch platform boots with drunken goldfish in the heels and a Cosmo-Kramer-esque sense of internal equilibrium, the illustrious Ms. Gauger managed to trip and drop her cherished MacBook Pro upon the cold concrete ground. Kersmash.
Now the screen doesn’t work. Eliza took it to Apple and they are quoting a repair price of an astonishing eight hundred dollars. Now, Eliza may be an asexual shrew with genitalia as shriveled and desiccated as the corpse of a sea snail transplanted to the Sahara, but she knows when she’s being boned.
She’s looking for other options, preferably (but not necessarily) in the Oakland, California area. Do we have any maverick repair gurus in the audience? Eliza can pay, but it needs to be far more reasonable than what Apple is charging. We’d all like to see her get through this, especially since she is working on some sickeningly cool stuff for Ectomo to roll out in the New Year. In addition to paying cash money, we can also distribute plush Cthulhus to anyone who can help get this sorted.
If you can help, or have a suggestion, either drop us a line in the comments or email Eliza at eliza.gauger KRUNK! gmail.com, where KRUNK! is an at symbol.
In sheer defiance of the World Wide Web Consortium's will, Ectomo was designed using a non-web-standard font. Luckily, it is included in the excellent font pack released by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which can be freely downloaded in Mac and PC formats here. Ectomo should still look fine without it, though.
