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About the Story"Scrape into a skull." Game Details
Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: April 14, 2016 Current Version: 1.00 License: Freeware Development System: Twine Forgiveness Rating: Merciful IFID: Unknown TUID: 4n85273pyxnb7rbw |
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Winner - Tiny Utopias Jam
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catacalypto
Possibilities in the TinyUtopias IF Jam
...a dark, strange, but comforting story of plenty and ritual, about who cleans up after us when we’re gone.
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A brief Twine game about a skull scraper with nice effects, April 20, 2016This game is a Tiny Utopia jam game, and Groover has picked an unusual vision for his utopia. You play a skull-scraper in a house of skulls, and you interact with the world in unusual ways.
This game has great production values, with combinations of advanced visuals, sound effects, etc. The setting is macabre but not gory, dark but not depressing.
The writing is well-paced, with a truly beautiful and almost-hidden turning point. Perhaps my favorite Tiny Utopias game.
Macabre rituals of transformation, September 4, 2016[Time to completion: 5 minutes]
This was written for the Tiny Utopias jam (https://catacalypto.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/possibilities-in-the-tinyutopias-if-jam), organised by Cat Manning (and is still ongoing!).
Skulls are not usual fare for utopias. Skulls mean death. Death means filth. But here, skulls are just another part of the PC's family trade, and what skull-scraper promises is plenty, abundance, enough for generations to come. Each skull holds a little vignette of experience, a ritual of transformation. Your role as a skull-scraper is not certain; what is certain is that there will be enough (see also Hannah Powell-Smith's take on the tiny utopia, Enough.)
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The following polls include votes for Skull-Scraper:For your consideration: XYZZY-eligible Multimedia of 2016 by MathBrush
This is for suggesting games released in 2016 which you think might be worth considering for Best Use of Multimedia in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination. The category will still be text-entry, and games not...
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I would like to explore the IF works with a pinch of poetry. I want to find the IF games with a good dose of emotions collected in tranquillity, heightened by wings of poesy.
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