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黃鶴楼 (Yellow Crane Tower)

by PublicDomainFriend

2025
Twine

(based on 1 rating)
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About the Story

Nonfiction. Similar Neo Twiny games: piele and you are an ancient chinese poet in exile.

Not an endorsement of any specific person or organization.

Contains sound.

Instructions: Click links to progress. Bold text can be clicked. Hover over yellow text or long press it on mobile to change definitions.

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Poetic Translations, July 10, 2025
Related reviews: neotwinyjam

Yellow Crane Tower is a micro translation game, where you ponder on the meaning of the eponymous poem about the eponymous landmark you read on a plaque while visiting Wuhan with your family. Inspired by the mechanic of piele (from the first NTJ) and its longer companion Verses, Yellow Crane Tower allows you to click/hover on the Mandarin characters to reveal its English equivalent(s) - showcasing not one, but two variations of the final verse of the poem.

Translation is a fascinating exercise, as no two languages is the same, and seeing the act unfold before your eyes - with previously translated words changing as new characters are translated - is kinda magical. It's very much a layered process, with never, really, a definite end.

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