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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.]

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