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.]
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Author | treatyofparis |
Genre | Interactive Fiction |
Tags | Exploration, Indie, LGBT, Mouse only, Narrative, Queer, Short, Singleplayer, Text based |
Average session | About a half-hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Mouse, Touchscreen |
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