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In a twist on standard format, you won’t always be speaking as Ao or even Bo, and might end up shaping the direction of the story as an ancillary character like a roommate or friend. You’ll walk around the flat from room to room, either checking out objects of interest or having conversations. No Longer Home features an interesting, detached sort of isometric view, and is structured like many narrative games, with a heavy focus on branching narrative choices, and a little bit of point and click adventure thrown in. Worse, in the past year they’ve come to grips with things like their sexuality and gender identity as well as forming a relationship, and all of it seems to hang in the balance. Without their flatmates and without the oft-mythical job placement straight after graduation, everyone’s uncertain. Ao is being forced to return home to Japan because of visa limitations and both are being uprooted from the flat they shared with friends.

Neither of them really feels like they know what they want to do, and even worse, circumstances out of their control are tearing them apart. It’s not long before you figure out that’s the rub, though. The story takes place at a very specific time in Ao and Bo’s life–right after university, when life “should” be taking off. While it’s not compulsory to playing No Longer Home, I’d recommend starting there, as it helps to establish what each main character is feeling and struggling with. No Longer Home’s story begins with a prior piece called Friary Lane that helps to establish Ao and Bo’s relationship. No Longer Home is a story about endings–specifically, the ending of an era for Ao and Bo, two people who have fallen in love over the course of a year, but are forced apart by things they can’t control, like student visas and financial concerns.

It’s why I love events like LudoNarraCon, which is where it just so happens I first encountered No Longer Home. I love a good story hook to keep me exploring and drive me to the end. The company has not explained why the ‌iPad‌ will no longer function as a home hub, but it could be related to Apple's upcoming cross-platform Matter smart home standard implementation.Ĭoming later this year, Matter will let HomeKit users add more smart home accessories to their ‌HomeKit‌ setups.Narrative driven games are a favorite of mine.

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The wording in the code found in the second beta of ‌iOS 16‌ suggests that Apple is removing the home hub functionality from the ‌iPad‌.

'Only ‌Apple TV‌ and HomePod are supported as home hubs,' reads the website.

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With Apple dropping support for the ‌iPad‌ as a home hub, users will need to have a HomePod, HomePod mini, or Apple TV to take advantage of features enabled by a hub, such as accessing accessories remotely with Siri and using location-based automation features.Īpple's ‌iOS 16‌ preview webpage suggested that the ‌iPad‌ would not be able to be used as a home hub, but it was not confirmed until now because in the first ‌iPadOS 16‌ beta, it was still possible to set an ‌iPad‌ as a home hub. iPad will no longer be supported as a home hub. You will not be able to view shared homes until those homes are also upgraded to the latest HomeKit. This information will be displayed in the Home app after updating to ‌iOS 16‌.Ī home hub is required to take advantage of features like receiving accessory notifications and allowing other people to control your home.

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The iPad will no longer be able to be used as a home hub following the launch of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, and the HomePod 16 software this fall, Apple confirmed today.Īs discovered in ‌iOS 16‌ code by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser, Apple says that the ‌iPad‌ will no longer be supported as a home hub.

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