Akin (MSX)
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Akin is a hybrid adventure
/platform game
created by the Dutch
amateur software producer Parallax for the MSX
-2 home computer
system. The game takes place in a distant future, where human's consciousness
es (called 'souls' in the game) can be up- and downloaded between different hardware after their deaths. The player
controls Ducane Seven, a simple droid, into whom the soul of a woman named Gwendolyn Irish is downloaded at the start of the game.
The game looks like and has the general interface of a platform game. The story is an important part of the game as well, however. The player, as Ducane Seven, needs to interact with a large number of non-player characters in order for the plot and thus the game to proceed.
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...
/platform game
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
created by the Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
amateur software producer Parallax for the MSX
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
-2 home computer
Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user...
system. The game takes place in a distant future, where human's consciousness
Consciousness
Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...
es (called 'souls' in the game) can be up- and downloaded between different hardware after their deaths. The player
Player (game)
A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....
controls Ducane Seven, a simple droid, into whom the soul of a woman named Gwendolyn Irish is downloaded at the start of the game.
The game looks like and has the general interface of a platform game. The story is an important part of the game as well, however. The player, as Ducane Seven, needs to interact with a large number of non-player characters in order for the plot and thus the game to proceed.