update - august 2023

Well, this is an overdue post but let's just acknowledge it: Going Down Swinging has definitely taken down the AR links for the QR codes... it's a shame but it is what it is.

You can still scan the codes and get taken to a 404 page for the ultimate ghost story experience! I'm a big fan of thinking about link rot and the decay of the Internet in general (you may know this if you played TOPOGRAPHY or even HYPER//ECHO) so I wouldn't even blame you if you thought this was an intentional High Concept Game Experience. 

But it's not.

There may be a possibility of me self-hosting the AR stuff, but I would have to ask for access for this stuff and it's entirely possible that whatever link redirects or whatever files that made that happen don't even exist anymore so I'm not gonna make any promises. 

There's also the matter of me personally thinking that the AR aspect of the game was never that important to the game anyway. It was a fun little gimmick but most gimmicks are short-lived, so maybe it makes sense that this one is gone.

Anyway, I've updated the build of this game to no longer reference scanning the QR codes. I also shortened the SFX for the radio at the beginning because I felt it went on for too long.

I still really like this game. I'd like to do something in Bitsy 3D or a similar tool again...

til next time

cecile