#dwindle

[siegecraft]

🌠 or 💡 or both?

💡 A game that inspired my own design or creative practice.

Dwindle by Caro Asercion has been a source of inspiration for me recently! Their game design always stands out to me as gorgeously streamlined: it’s efficient, not in the sense of minimalism or stripping out flavor to leave only mechanics, but in a way that feels respectful of the reader's time.

I could go off about it for ages but the one thing I'll highlight is the way character stats work. I think it's really special when gameplay feels meaningfully in step with the genre and emotional tenor of the game and Dwindle really succeeds there:

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[meatmarionette]

its bc youre always in that damn coffin

[duct-taped-shoes]

I know all the dwindle brands are dead but I really hope Tensor trucks somehow makes it out

[sirdwindle]

dwindle bad end 😔

[usgsbiml]

The Eastern Mystery Bombus.   Here is Bombus sandersoni.   Rather late on the scene taxonomically...described in 1913 as a subspecies of B. vagans by the Franklin (famous bumble bee dude from the Northeast)  and later elevated to species status.  It is the trickest to ID species in the East.  The only real characters are a not too short not too malar space (space between the eye and mandible) and often a lot of white hairs on T5 of the abdomen...but maybe sometimes not having white hairs to make things tricky.  Generally uncommon, generally found in heavily wooded northern and Appalachian regions and frankly irritating in its ambiguity.   Also, apparently just not sexy enough for anyone to want to study it, unlike the other generally over studied species of Bumble Bees.  Specimen collected up at Mountan Lake in Virginia by Barbara Abraham and photo by Brooke Goggins.    

[nosrac]

[drabbledragon]

yo dude, your writing is all sick as heck!! just wanted to ask if you would ever make a part 2 to Dwindle (if that's the name of that fic where Wild loses his memories)?

Hey, thanks for the compliment! As for Dwindle, there may be a possibility of a sequel but that all depends on if I can make a quality addition to the story or not. In truth, I do like the way the fic ends in ambiguity so I’m not too adamant on expanding on the idea; however, if I do come up with a good continuation to the plot, I’ll make sure to write a sequel for it one day!

*Side Note: This applies to all fics I’ve written and will write in the future.

[ramblebrambleamble]

I count the time between eclipses -

Slow burns the flame that dwindles

Down to embered ash

In the shadow of the moon.