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 Last weekend I got hooked on this silly game that I discovered by following an ad link from my website. Notice I said “following an ad link” and not “clicking on an ad” - I can’t click on my own ads even though it looks mighty interesting to me. So anyway, the game is called Supple and I don’t even remember what caught my eye on the ad but their homepage had appealing graphics (to me) and it describes the game as “much better than the Sims”. Of course I doubted the veracity of the claim and would never have bought the line but they had a free trial. You can download the game and play it for one hour before you decide whether you want to buy it or not. So download I did. I figured it was a good way to kill time while waiting for my LotRO buddies to show up. Well, I ended up spending $20 and way more than one hour playing it. I suppose considering the amount of money Americans spend on entertainment, that isn’t too much to pay for hours of interactive sitcom.

The download was painless - it was over in maybe 2 minutes (I have a cable connection). Installation was also a breeze.  So I start up the game and get a few options on the main menu (New Game, Load Game, Sound, etc). I figure since I only have one hour, I should just plunge into the game so I pick New Game. I get a short blurb that describes the scenario and tells me what my objective is. I am playing as Arin Costello, associate editor at Supple Magazine. My goal is to beat my self-centered but sexy colleague for the promotion to style editor. To do that, I need to impress my boss Margot. Hmmm interesting!

I click on “Play” and it gives me three difficulty levels to choose from: Easy, Medium and Hard. Not bad an attempt at replayability. For now I pick Easy. The scene opens up with Arin and Hugh standing in the office. The game graphics are a little better than the original Sims but nothing compared to Sims 2. Hugh comes over and starts chatting with Arin. Real voices come out of my speakers and I like that. I find out later that the characters only have two or three scripted lines per situation but for now it’s a novel thing! He’s friendly and I get the option to respond in kind, be bitchy to him, or ignore him. No reason to be nasty so I go along. Woot! Arin has a sexy voice too! I’m beginning to get attached to my avatar.

After a while Hugh decides he needs coffee and the game tells me that Arin needs to get rid of her jeans because the boss doesn’t like casual clothes. She can go shopping for clothes but she doesn’t have enough money, so she has to do research to earn money. I click on her computer and she meanders over, sits with a flourish and starts typing away. The race is on for the promotion and I’m hooked!

The game timeline starts on a Monday and ends on a Friday. Whoever gets the most game performance points at the end of the week gets the promotion. At the start, Hugh seemed to get ahead faster than Arin. He also flirted quite heavily with the boss and bought her gifts. And once in a while, he would come over and poke fun at Arin, which deflated her self confidence and made her perform poorly at work. But once I figured out the AI, Arin started to run circles around him and the poor thing didn’t even know it.   So of course in the end she got the promotion AND the man. One of these days, I’ll probably try it out on Medium or Hard level, or just play with various situations to see how the characters would react.

What makes the game interesting to me though, more than the fact that it unexpectedly held my interest for more than an hour for such a simple game, is that it’s obviously aimed at female gamers. We don’t see too many of those around. The producer is an outfit called More Than Interactive (MTI) Games and this seems to be their first venture. The game is very similar in concept to the Sims 2 Life Stories, and although the latter is a better game all around, it’s always nice to see a small company come out with a product that has just as much entertainment value.

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