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About the StoryA fleeting glimpse of the seasons from a magpie's perspective. Game Details |
Awards
Best in Show; Audience Choice--Best Design, Best Writing, Best Twine Game, Main Festival - Spring Thing 2019
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Not enough choice, so not really a game, July 7, 2019Nice descriptive prose, with just enough player input to keep me clicking through the text. There's one choice at the beginning that probably decides how successful some decisions are later on.
Over all, I found it like reading an over-long poem. It didn't scratch either my game playing nor my story reading itch.
Still, the author did a good job with the text and evoking emotions. It's just not my bag, baby.
A shortish Twine game about a bird's life throughout the season's, April 9, 2019This game has an interesting structure: part stat-based, part poetry, and part dynamic fiction.
You play as a bird who has suffered a violent attack, and must make several choices over the next year or so.
The writing is lovely and descriptive of the various seasons.
You make about one choice per season, with one text-entry choice and all others binary. The binary choices have various effects later on.
After your choice, each page is just a sentence or two that you click through to get to the next season. This is the poetic/dynamic part I referred to earlier.
The game was overall enjoyable, but the format just seemed spread thin. Being stat-based but only making 1 or 2 stat choices seemed odd, and more of a 'win by remembering what you did' sort of thing.
I'd like to see more games by this author, and will keep an eye out.
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The following polls include votes for Among the Seasons:For your consideration: XYZZY-eligible Best Writing of 2019 by MathBrush
This is for suggesting games released in 2019 which you think might be worth considering for Best Writing in the XYZZY awards. This is not a zeroth-round nomination.This is not an official list. The point of poll is partly to suggest...
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