Starfish and Crystallisation

by Colin Justin Wan

2025
Twine

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Past memories and loss explored in short multimedia Twine piece, June 25, 2025
by Vivienne Dunstan (Dundee, Scotland)

Note: This review was written during Spring Thing 2025, and originally posted in the intfiction forum on 24 April 2025.

This is a short multimedia Twine piece about past memories and loss.

It’s quite evocative, and well written, though not too interactive. There are some key choices to make, and also some sections where you’re asked to type an answer or word into a box. Which can be challenging, though hints are given.

There is music, but fortunately for me it was instrumental, so unusually for me I kept playing it while I read the text. Often audio tracks for multimedia IF distract me too much from reading. The visuals got a little muddled at times, making text harder to read. But generally the interface was pretty clean.

A short piece, but well worth playing through. It only took 10 minutes of my time, but I found it very engrossing.

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