#droctothorpe

[torrentialmonsoon]

Thank you, once again, to @droctothorpe, for this incredible art! Blessed!

[torrentialmonsoon]

Thank you to a ridiculously talented man, @droctothorpe for this!!! You have left me speechless! I have nothing else to utter except for thank you. And those two words will never be enough. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are so talented and I am honoured you wanted to paint me into a visual art existence. 

[manonamora-if-reviews]

A Crumpled Piece of Paper by DrOctothorpe

Twine/Harlowe - Neo-Twiny Jam Play the Game Read other reviews

A Crumpled Piece of Paper is an interactive epistolary game, where you find a balled up piece of paper on the pavement. Curious about its content, you open it. It's a letter written to an ex. Reminiscing on the past. Talking about the present. But it's also a lot more.

The game calls itself flash fiction, using cycling interactive elements to display different sides of the story. It starts off pretty normal and mundane, exploring the messy feelings of break ups. Soon, though, as you interact with the sentences, so does the tone. It's a bit bizarre, quite sad, then turns to chilling, to down right horror-y!

You'd think the shift of tone would be bizarre, but it's incredibly well done here. Fed drip by drip, you don't realise until it's too late what has happened here. There's a bit of a back and forth with a few sections at the end, almost re-writing what was there before.

But I think the most interesting thing about the interactivity here, is the tiny "combination puzzles". At a couple key points, you have multiple active cycling elements, blocking the rest of the story until you match the correct words. In the context of when the letter was written in-game, it really puts emphasis on how the choice of words are important, how they all have different meanings and weights, how appropriate they are in specific situations.

This was really really good!

[manonamora-if-reviews]

Neo Twiny Jam - bite-sized review

The Neo Twiny Jam (@neo-twiny-jam) is an interactive fiction game unranked jam where participants could not write more than 500 words per entry.

You can find every submitted piece on the jam's Itch Page.

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The Boulder by DrOctothorpe

Entry CW: futility, memory loss

Push the Boulder, Fall Once More, Start Again While this could be a metaphor for how grueling and monotonous life could be, this entry takes instead inspiration from a familiar Greek myth. Forced to complete this Sysiphian task, memories from a former life, a previous time, start to pique your mind. You slowly uncover the mystery, pushing the boulder, again, and again, fighting the pull of the great stone or complying to its wished. Really good!