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a draft of a game (/poem/fairy tale/spiral/white-out). created for shufflecomp 2024. it's based entirely around one song, "a hole in the ground" (ty nulla for submitting it!)
about 2000 words, a few endings.
singer/songwriter dana margolin's words on the song:
"This is a song about not knowing, being trapped in a haunted fairytale or a horrible nightmare and running and running and predicting horrible futures that come true and self-fulfill. It’s a gentle lullaby but it’s also a folk tale with a tragic ending. This is a song about knowing what you don’t know yet. Seeing the future by guessing, being right."
4th Place, Overall Goodness; 3rd Place, Best Use of Songs - ShuffleComp 2024
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This game was entered into Shufflecomp.
The author projects finishing it or adding more at a future date.
Basically, there is some beautiful poetry filled with nature imagery and her falling or transforming. I'd be more specific but the story itself is pretty vague, I got more 'vibes' from it than plot, and the vibes were nice. There is a branch early on and the two paths are wildly different. In one, the words become more sparse naturally.
In the other, you pare down the text by removing words. These removed words are placed into a kind of gallery where eventually they form a larger poem, but the game can end under certain criteria before you get to see the finished one some times. You also have the option to go forward and back, but there are also word links that move you forward, and I'm not sure what the difference between those two options is.
Fun concept.