A Note On... The Art of Writing Letters
Every Letter is a short narrative game by @avioletfairy! Take on the unique job of writing letters for others!
Okay so I love the concept of this game. I was getting Violet Evergarden vibes from it because of the description on Steam, but only got confirmation just now (as I'm writing this) after checking the game out on itch.io.
As a writer, the idea of writing other's letters is super interesting to me. Because I'm never going to fully encapsulate the feelings of another person perfectly. While getting it mostly right is okay because the intention would be the same, unless the writer (in this case me) understands the sender and the reader, the words won't contain the sender in their entirety.
And that's one of the reasons I like the game (also its inspiration in Violet Evergarden) because the words in these letters have a lot of emotion and intent from the sender.
I had a lot of fun with this game! Especially when I was:
1) doing all the letters for the first time. I really took my time with all of them and tried to write meaningful letters. Except the joke one from Rin. I could not find a way to write a joke.
The game feels like a really good way to practice writing for prompts, which I find really cool. If more was added to the game, or we could add our own, I'd probably end up spending a lot of time in the office...
2) trying to find all the different writing tasks. I'm still at 18/19 because I don't know if there's a 19th one??
But aside from that! I didn't think I'd find it fun to do the prompts again because I'd just done them like 5 minutes before. But! For some of them, I'd find ways to change the meaning of the letter while technically keeping the meaning the same.
The one I'm thinking about specifically is the one about the friends fighting for 5 months and the sender wants to meet with the recipient to apologize (without you, the writer, apologizing for them)! After probably 10 times doing it, my letter devolved into something like "You. Me. 10AM. IHOP. Be there or else!!" and it sounds more like a threat or a challenge than trying to meet for an apology.
For others, I'd try to get the shortest response or find a different way of saying the same thing and I found it to be really fun.
Every Letter is a cool game about writing letters! Short and sweet and definitely encourages that creative side of your brain.