Review by Jabberwock

To start off, we should probably establish that Paulson Jallock is not actually a game. As such, it's not the easiest thing to review. I mean, really; you can't analyze gameplay or story when those things don't exist. But the general principle - looking at what something attempts to do, and analyzing how well it does that and maybe how good an idea it was in the first place - works just fine, and in this respect you have before you a pretty successful program.

Basically, Paulson Jallock is a procedural image generation program which, as the name might suggest and as the author states, "allows your computer to be an abstract artist." This manifests itself in the drawing of a lot of random splotches and lines in randomized colors. The author also says that "there's not much else to say about it," which is true, and he also says that "it's gorgeous sometimes," which is also true, and which is why I'm writing this review. Predictably, some of the patterns are ugly, but some of them are also genuinely pretty, and it lets you save them, which is nice.

There isn't much to say about some things, but they might still be worth experiencing, and this program is a thing like that. I wish the author had expanded on the concept - allowed user parameters, and perhaps even turned it into a screensaver - but as it is, it's interesting enough to be worth a look, or five. If it's late at night and you've got nothing to do, you might even enjoy staring at it; I won't judge.

Press space if you want to end image generation and make a new one, by the way.