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Rougi - A Belle Époque Mystery

Que le spectacle commence!

Gentle friends, I am pleased to present the demo for Rougi, an interactive novella created for @interact-if's unranked game jam with the theme "red herring".

The Palais Garnier, home to the renowned Paris Opéra Ballet, is set to premiere Les Souliers Rouges, a ballet whose very name is rumored to carry a formidable curse. As the premiere draws ever nearer, a series of inexplicable incidents in the opera house stir up a maelstrom of terror and intrigue. With whispers of illicit affairs, sinister motives, and hauntings around every corner, tensions—and the stakes—have never been higher. Here, everyone has a part to play…and everyone is playing a part.

Delve through rumour and reason into the glittering Belle Époque world of the Paris Opéra Ballet and unravel what’s really going on in the wings. After all, the show must go on…

Rougi by Lapin Lunaire Games

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This is not a full demo. The next build will contain the remaining 50% of the game, including scenes such as "Awkward Fancy Dinner", "Opera House Stakeout", and "Narratively Significant Dream", as well as the three possible endings!

#interactif game jam #interactive fiction #twine game #belle epoque #ballet #rougi game

readmydesire

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Happy New Year! I was just wondering if you still had plans to update Rougi?

Happy New Year! I do! Rougi actually received a very quiet beta-test update (it was not a public beta, no one get your hopes up!) midway through last year and I've been whittling away at writing the rest of it.

I've realised that the original design/narrative of the game wasn't quite landing where I wanted it to, so there are some significant rewrites happening. That being said, Rougi isn't the main project that I'm working on at the moment, so I don't know when an update will come. I know that probably isn't quite the news you were hoping for, but it's what I have to offer! Thank you for playing the demo so far, and for sticking with me!

#ask

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George Lambert - Ballet dancer in costume (1911)

#aes

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Opéra Garnier, Paris 🇫🇷

Source: avidlondoner

#aes

Today's been a real Rougi day! My lovely friends @cyberpunklesbian and @manonamora-if shared a review of the game that they saw over on IFDB, so I've had ballet mode on the mind since morning. Then this afternoon, a friend sent me a video of some really gorgeous choreography from a recent local production. And just now as I was browsing for some music to do some writing to, I found a short film from the Gobelins YT channel that fits this project eerily well!

It's just over a minute long (literally, by one second) and called ÉLÉGIE - I'm linking it below the cut because I don't remember exactly what the thumbnail looks like and there is some body horror involved. If organs make you squeamish, don't click!

tw injury, body horror, death

#the handdrawn animation has me frothing at the mouth too #rougi:elodie #rougi:laure #don't take it too literally :) :) :)#Youtube

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dream occupation: scurrying around the paris catacombs and leaping out at tourists and when they ask what the hell i'm doing i tell them i'm the new scare actor. they start to grin and nod. some of them laugh nervously. then the tour guide squints at me suspiciously and says they're pretty sure we don't have a scare actor. but it's too late. i'm already skittering back into the tunnels.

#bonus route???? haha nah just kidding....unless...?

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Rougi by Lapin Lunaire Games

The Palais Garnier, home to the renowned Paris Opéra Ballet, is set to premiere Les Souliers Rouges, a ballet whose very name is rumored to carry a formidable curse. As the premiere draws ever nearer, a series of inexplicable incidents in the opera house stir up a maelstrom of terror and intrigue. With whispers of illicit affairs, sinister motives, and hauntings around every corner, tensions—and the stakes—have never been higher. Here, everyone has a part to play…and everyone is playing a part.

Delve through rumour and reason into the glittering Belle Époque world of the Paris Opéra Ballet and unravel what’s really going on in the wings. After all, the show must go on…

#wow!!!!

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William Bracewell and Fumi Kaneko photographed performing as the title roles in Kenneth Macmillan’s Romeo & Juliet by Foteini Christofilopoulou | by afrisballetx

#aes #courtesy of manon!!!#these are so good....the devotion....

Some ballet pics: https://www.tumblr.com/kirnet/701188502746021888/dolcesostenuto-william-bracewell-and-fumi-kaneko?source=share

Thank you Manon!! <3 these are such good vibes

#manonamora-if #hugging u v tightly and cherishing these