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About the Story
These beasts won't feed themselves.
A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes.
Awards
Nominee, Best Writing - 2016 XYZZY Awards
15th Place - 22nd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2016)
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:   Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
A visually rich Texture game about feeding grim animals, May 7, 2017*In this game, you play as a zookeeper for a queen.
This is a texture game, which is good for mobile and desktop. You grab a few nouns at the bottom, and drag them above; in this story, they nouns are mainly keys and food.
Your job is to feed the animals. This game is about exploration of the universe; your choices matter, making replay enjoyable.
The game is visually well-developed as well.
Highly recommended.
4 Off-Site Reviews
The Breakfast Review
Partaking of Groover is like partaking of some everlasting, continuous feast, each story just another slice of the unending line-up. There is a sense of decadence, of something delectable made from organ meat and fat. Something baroque.
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catacalypto
Third person works well here, establishing a voyeuristic distance between reader and keeper that’s complicated by Texture’s format of dragging. The platform requires slightly more input than a hyperlink, but less so than even a limited parser, and so seems particularly suited to work that deals with themes of implication, constraint, and guilt.
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Though this is not a long piece, individual passages of prose are doing a lot of work. Dark, short, suitable for Gothic tastes, good for 10-15 minutes of play. Probably not for small children.
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These Heterogenous Tasks
It’s highly Gothic; the closest comparison I can think of is Mervyn Peake, although the thematics are very much in the same general territory as With Those We Love Alive.
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Game Details
First Publication Date: October 1, 2016
Current Version: 1
License: Freeware
Development System: Texture
Forgiveness Rating: Merciful
IFID: Unknown
TUID: 52qxb0gl1h2xbmq4
Referenced in Grooverland, by Mathbrush
The Queen's Menagerie on IFDB
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