It was requested by one commenter that I provide a walkthrough for my story game “Answer The Call”. Since I believe the game is fairly intuitive, I decided that instead of providing helpful hints I would provide a précis or summary of the important elements in the story. I feel that summarizing the story in this way won’t detour you, the player, from making your own choice as it could if I were to suggest an individual path as in a walkthrough.
Interestingly, the variations of where you go, what you do, and what you find, that have been built into the storygame, cannot be completely summarized. The experience of playing is a unique one, dependent on each player’s own decisions.
I can tell you that a total SCORE of 767 points can be achieved if you make no mistakes and find every bonus or “Easter egg” along the way. So if you’ve played before – you might want to try it again…
If you’ve played and didn’t quite understand something, please read the summary below or feel free to use this forum posting to discuss it.
Thank you.
Spoiler Alert!
(This is a preview of the next installment and also a summary of the last. )
Answer The Call - 2
begins like this...
The police and EMS arrive at the scene as crowds of students continue to form outside the college library. The commotion and confusion caused by their arrival provides you the much needed opportunity to slip away unnoticed.
Dealing with perplexities of your own; your mind, in its own sort of turmoil itself, seems to overflow with many assorted questions. Questions concerning the morning’s odd affairs; like the bomb that was planted in the Starbucks storage room and the flip phone that you found on the coffee cup display there - and it being the bombs detonator!
The various envelopes you found fastened up and inside the hatch of blue mailboxes at different locations in town; and the signal jamming device tucked behind a stack of newspapers that still remained un-purchased in a newspaper vending machine.
The money, $207.25 that was stolen from a Staples office supply store, who knows when, and the ski-mask the thief used when stealing it. And how can you forget that prototypical iPhone X that provided you directions of where to go and instruction of what to do when you got there.
The questions apparently answered by strangers have lead you to other strangers giving even stranger answers. Unlikely answers to questions that are still left very much unanswered in your mind. Questions like: Who really were those people and was what they said really true?
If someday in the future you did figure out how to make a phone call to the past; why did you call yourself, why did your future-self pick what seems such an insignificant event when compared to the many atrocities of mankind's history, as your introduction to the life of an unsung hero that answered the call.
Still, despite the many questions racing around in your mind you’re left with only two choices of what to do now: go home or go back to work.
