I replayed Submachine and I finded that Submachine art has progressed too, just give a look at original 551 and current one, and also at those details in Layer 6 and new rooms of SNEE. So I find that Subnet will not become "poorly drawn".
Mateusz obviously lost the interest because of its boundaries. But are those boundaries are to bad?
The gameplay that consist in a PNC where you move trough 2.5 dimensional hausdorff cubic tesseract shaped rooms mechanic and structure (Heheh
). Every one liked that "closed" gameplay, because its one of the most "original" things Mateusz did on his life, alongside with the creation of the first MSO in the history of playing (SNEE). The Submachine is a game played on "cubes", and if much can't be done with that gameplay, is a good and original concept. Remember that Sub2 Sketch has a diferent mechanic and structure, and that Mateusz went back to the "cubic" PNC gameplay, because Mateusz said that people really liked it. Today Mateusz finded this gameplay as an obstacle, an excuse to lost the interest of submachine.
Data:
Submachine: Closed in its gameplay, the same one that people "liked", and same one that did Mateusz lost the interst. "The Subnet is vast and anything goes in", but that refers to the objects amd environments, but that doesn't have any relation with the engine or the gameplay, Mateusz just draw something there and nothing more then.
Daymare Town: No plot = Any gameplay acceptable (withouth forget the "Daymare difficulty"
), equation that gives Mateusz lot of interest, because Mateusz can do lot of stuff there.
But now I noticed something new:
Submachine is a deep story, a world that cannot be maped or sized, a world to "explore". In Submachine you just solve puzzles in order to continue exploring, The outro of Sub3 clearly says that we don't want to "escape". Submachine is more than just a game, its "art", I know that since the first time I played it.
Daymare town is the true "challange", the "true" game. Daymare Town is a world where no matters the gameplay where it is, is just a world in trouble where you always need to "solve" something, and if you can't solve the troubles, you just can run and try to "escape", but happens that you can't escape from the daymare. No plot = No end = No win. Mateusz is free to make anything he wants here (New troubles that end in new quests and puzzles on any gameplay), thats is the flexibility of the Daymare world.
I start to think that Mateusz didn't lost the interest on Submachine, but he got a lot of interest in DMT, because Mateusz is free to make anything he wants on there and thats how becomed his best world and best series of "games".
And Submachine?
Once the plot ends, the Submachine will remain as a world to explore. Daymare is now Mateusz best world, but Submachine is still Mateusz biggest world. Submachine is not an enigma that needs to be solved, Submachine is a world that needs to be explored. Why SNEE is the best representation of what Subnet is? Just because of that.
DMT is not only a challange for the players, but for Mateusz too, because he uses all his powers on it, and he likes challanges.
Now that Submachine is more an art than a game means that its not a challange for Mateusz making it, but Mateusz makes it, because he wants to show to the world that story, and that huge world that wants to be explored.
Submachine is closed as game, but open as art.
If DMT is Mateusz best game and his best world, then Sub is Mateusz best art and our best world.
Submachine is not Mateusz best world because Submachine is emited to the public, the public decides whats it.
Who leaves a work of art uncomplete? None, its pointless.
Submachine is still alive!
My last words: I like Mateusz arty game called Submachine, and I like Mateusz Challangefull game known as Daymare town.
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