{"id":25815,"date":"2013-09-21T15:29:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T22:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=25815"},"modified":"2013-09-21T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T23:58:17","slug":"mirrormoon-mystery-wrapped-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/09\/21\/mirrormoon-mystery-wrapped-galaxy\/","title":{"rendered":"MirrorMoon is a mystery wrapped in a galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I know about MirrorMoon can be pretty much summed up in a single phrase, which is on the game&#8217;s main screen when you boot it up: it&#8217;s a &#8220;recursive space mystery&#8221;.  I don&#8217;t even know what that means, which is no surprise given that I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing, where I&#8217;m doing it, or even whether I&#8217;m doing it. But here&#8217;s a picture of a planet I found with some sort of funky swirling thing going on.  It seems like it&#8217;s this planet&#8217;s version of weather.<\/p>\n<p>The basic concept &#8212; I have no idea if this constitutes a spoiler, because I have no idea whether there&#8217;s anything deeper down this inscrutable galactic rabbit hole &#8212; is that you fly a ship with unlabeled controls to a planet, where a hovering miniature version of the planet serves as a map\/control panel, which you then use to activate something to let you do something that somehow involves going to other planets something something something.  I think the miniature planet map (a mirror moon, perhaps?) is the recursive part of the game.  Everything else is the space mystery.<\/p>\n<p>MirrorMoon is available now on Steam.  Let me know if you figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I know about MirrorMoon can be pretty much summed up in a single phrase, which is on the game&#8217;s main screen when you boot it up: it&#8217;s a &#8220;recursive space mystery&#8221;. 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