History VideoGame / GravityBone

* AwesomenessMeter: {{Parodied}}. In addition to your base mission payment, you're also rewarded bonus cash for a number of strange reasons, such as a "$100 Full Gas Tank bonus" in a mission with no vehicles.
** And the less said about the "Phantom Pants bonus", the better.
* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: After the EvilRedhead shoots Abel, she steals his camera, and is implied to get away with it too.]]
* [[spoiler:BlownAcrossTheRoom[=/=]SlowMotionFall: Both happen at the end of the game when the EvilRedhead shoots and fatally wounds Abel and steals his camera.]]

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Abel is killed by the EvilRedhead in mission 2.]]

** FirstPersonSnapshooter: Mission 2, requiring Abel to photograph five birds around the location.
* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Abel himself at the end.]]

* [[spoiler:MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Happens to Abel while he falls to his death.]]

* [[spoiler:ProtagonistCenteredMorality: As WebVideo/ErrantSignal has pointed out, the game ending with Able's death could be seen as mocking this attitude, as well as video game worlds only existing for the protagonist.]]

* [[spoiler:TwistEnding: Abel is shot and killed at the end of mission 2, prematurely ending the game.]]

* FirstPersonShooter: Well... it's hard to call it a shooter. The only substance you actually fire out of a handheld device throughout the whole thing is the pressurized freon, and even that's only for freezing padlocks...

* SyntheticVoiceActor: Is that Microsoft Mary giving you your mission details?

* ShoutOut: So, the main character's name is supposedly "Abel", the in-universe nickname for him is Citizen Abel, so that must mean there should be another person somewhere called... [[{{Film/CitizenKane}} oh, I'm so dumb...]]
** During the flashback sequence, the part with the car exploding has audio lifted directly out of {{Film/The Godfather}}.

** During the flashback sequence, the part with the car exploding has audio lifted directly out of {{Film/TheGodfather}}.

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* BlownAcrossTheRoom: [[spoiler:This is how Abel dies]].
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The red-headed woman in the second mission just seems like another NPC...until she shoots you towards the end.]]

* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Citizen Abel himself]] thinks nothing of embarking on a high-speed foot chase after being [[spoiler:shot three times]].
* EvilRedhead: Your target in mission 1 is the only red-headed man at the party, and in mission [[spoiler:2]], [[spoiler:the redheaded woman shoots you]].

* FirstPersonSnapshooter / WeaponizedCamera: Implied. In mission 2, the five birds fall off their perches and explode when they are photographed.

* MoodDissonance: So, it's mission 2, you've just been [[spoiler:shot by the woman you saw at the start, and she decides to steal your camera]]. Why, then, is this action accompanied by a ''slide-whistle''?
* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: [[spoiler:Happens to Abel himself while he falls to his death.]]

* SlowMotionFall: [[spoiler:The ending.]]
* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: [[spoiler:You have to chase after the woman, even though she's armed with a gun, and you're not. The chase ends predictably.]]

* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Abel dies at the end of mission 2.]]
* WackySoundEffect: Clicking the mouse button to get a better view of your mission briefing card is followed by you lifting the card to your face with a slide whistle sound. The red-haired woman [[spoiler:stealing your camera after having shot you]] in mission 2 [[MoodDissonance also evokes such a sound effect]].

Several years later, creator Brendon Chung was asked by Idle Thumbs to make a sequel, and after elaborating on a pre-existing prototype for ''Gravity Bone'', ''VideoGame/ThirtyFlightsOfLoving'' was released, which comes bundled with ''Gravity Bone'' in places such as the game's {{Steam}} release.

* EvilRedhead: your target in mission 1 is the only red-headed man at the party, and in mission [[spoiler:2]], [[spoiler:the redheaded woman shoots you]].

Several years later, creator Brendon Chung was asked by Idle Thumbs to make a sequel, and after elaborating on a pre-existing prototype for ''Gravity Bone'', ''VideoGame/ThirtyFlightsOfLoving'' was released, which comes bundled with ''Gravity Bone''.

* WackySoundEffect: Clicking the mouse button to get a better view of your mission briefing card is followed by you lifting the card to your face with a slide whistle sound.

''Citizen Abel: Gravity Bone'' is a [[FreewareGame Freeware]] SpyFiction First Person short story by [[http://www.blendogames.com/ Brendon Chung]], set in the nondescript South American locale of Nuevos Aires. You play Citizen Abel, a secret agent who embarks on missions that involve performing peculiar or outright bizarre actions, such as secretly feeding an insect to a man at a party, or taking covert photographs of black birds. Your actions are only ever explained at the end of a successful mission by a MotorMouth robotic voice - and even then you never know who your "clients" are, or what their greater purpose is.

* ChaseScene: And how!

''Citizen Abel: Gravity Bone'' is a [[FreewareGame Freeware]] SpyFiction FirstPersonShooter by [[http://www.blendogames.com/ Brendon Chung]], set in the nondescript South American locale of Nuevos Aires. You play Citizen Abel, a secret agent who embarks on missions that involve performing peculiar or outright bizarre actions, such as secretly feeding an insect to a man at a party, or taking covert photographs of black birds. Your actions are only ever explained at the end of a successful mission by a MotorMouth robotic voice - and even then you never know who your "clients" are, or what their greater purpose is.

* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Citizen Abel]] thinks nothing of embarking on a high-speed foot chase after being [[spoiler:shot three times]].

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies]]

* FirstPersonShooter: Well...it's hard to call it a shooter. The only substance you actually fire out of a handheld device throughout the whole thing is the pressurized freon, and even that's only for freezing padlocks..

* MindScrew: The whole appeal of both ''Gravity Bone'' and [[ThirtyFlightsOfLoving its spiritual successor]] is that you, the player, is only given vague hints at the storyline being told entirely through the environment and events, rather than dialogue. WordOfGod says that he doesn't expect absolutely everyone to piece everything together the first time around.

* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: [[spoiler: Happens to Abel himself while he falls to his death]].

* ShoutOut: So, the main character's name is supposedly "Abel", the in-universe nickname for him is Citizen Abel, so that must mean there should be another person somewhere called...[[{{Film/CitizenKane}} oh, I'm so dumb...]]
* SlowMotionFall: [[spoiler: The ending.]]

* TheUnintelligible: Everyone you meet speaks using the exact same "wah wah" sound used by grown-ups in the ''{{Peanuts}}'' cartoon.

* WeaponizedCamera: Implied. In mission 2, the five birds fall off their perches and explode when they are photographed.

-->--'''Author's description of the game.'''