ruin

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ruin is a game about reading and writing poetry. it is a game about cities, oceans, maps, bookstores, malls, gardens. it is a game about being lost. 

CW: allusions to death, colonialism, incarceration

cover image adapted from a screenshot of Kentucky Route Zero, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

bibliography and ludography:

• "Kubla Khan" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• "Sailing to Byzantium" - William Butler Yeats
• The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed - Racter
• A House of Dust - Alison Knowles
• Stochastic Texts - Theo Lutz
• Colossal Cave Adventure - Will Crowther & Don Woods
• Kentucky Route Zero - Cardboard Computer
• "Two Gallants" - James Joyce
• "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" - Jorge Luis Borges
• The Books of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
• "Death of a Naturalist" - Seamus Heaney
• NORCO - Geography of Robots
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• Curses - Graham Nelson
• Saltsea Chronicles - Die Gute Fabrik
• Mutazione - Die Gute Fabrik
• "Ozymandias" - Percy Bysshe Shelley
• "Diving into the Wreck" - Adrienne Rich
• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

[made in ~60 hours for inkJam 2023. ~8k words.]