Started playing Witchbeam's "Unpacking” as a PS Plus freebie. Yeah, it's real good.
I thought I understood it as following along a young woman's life by carefully considering her changing possessions year-by-year, finding a right place for each through her frequent moves. And it is that!
But I didn't expect the story beats that creep in entirely through the mechanics of unpacking and placing objects, beyond the nature of the objects themselves. #Videogames#NarrativeGames
This is the only zine covering text-heavy, choice-heavy, narrative games from around the world! No one else is talking about the stuff like we are, so don't sleep on it.
Please, for the love of everything, help us spread the word!
Head into the peaceful countryside of Japan with Satoyama Note: Natsukusa Komichi by nyacchu and Michi! Brush up on your knowledge of animals, traditional Japanese customs, and natural phenomena as you follow the summertime story of Fox, Tanuki, and Frog. Can you pass the Tanuki University exam?
We had the opportunity to speak with @nekobungi, a manga artist who recently released the emotional and beautiful Neko Can Dream in English! We got to talk about telling queer stories in both manga and video game format, and addressing contemporary themes through retro limitations!
We were delighted to speak with CJ and Mabbees of Studio Terranova about working on the 2000s-era interactive fiction game, Terranova! We also learned more about interface dramas, memories of being queer teenagers role-playing on an early Internet, and participating in Global Game Jam from Japan!
The English version of Neko Can Dream by @nekobungi releases TOMORROW, October 21! 🎉 If you got the original app in Japanese, it will be updated with the new English translation. It is also getting a physical release as a GameBoy cartridge!
Peeble von Dray - fabled author of The Almanac - is always ready to offer a bon mot or a fun fact about the Saltsea Archipelago. What does he have to offer today?
Wrote about Neko Can Dream, a gorgeous and surreal Game Boy-styled adventure game made by Nekobungi Sumire. Dive into people's dreams and figure out how to turn them into canned dreams. It's a haunting and strange story, and one that I really hope more people check out.
Wow, it's been a while! In less than an hour at 5pm ET / 2pm PT, I'll be chatting with gamedevs Abhi of Venba, Marina Ayano Kittaka of Sephonie, Natalie Tin Yin Gan & @remysiu of 1000xResist!
We'll have a profound talk on how our respective games and characters explore cultural memory, hope, and trauma.
You can watch the panel here, as part of Fellow Traveller's #LudoNarraCon !
LudoNarraCon, a digital narrative games festival, is back this year with a whole new set of narrative games to check out. I'm sharing the games that caught my eye and that I think you should check out.