I really like this. Apart from its sparse narrative, which I wouldn’t want to spoil here, it does something maybe unique with its interactive design? There are so few things to click on, so it’s likely to go unnoticed, but it looks like when approaching a clickable object the camera zooms in a bit to get a closer look. (A side-benefit is that once you key into this you can stop clicking around for other interactive elements and just look around instead.)
One odd choice however: disabling the door interaction during the last bit seems like a curious mistake, precisely when that frantic banging would have been most appropriate.
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I’m going to assume the clopping noise and the bodies at the ending indicates the player is either Pestilence or Death. Quite interesting, it tells a story without a single word.
I got out of it that you’re a small girl locked into a room as you’re too sick to be in public. As you rest you’re able to live initially even with the rest. but more people with the same sickness get administered (deposited?) to the same room. You slowly get sicker and sicker, and you play each new person arriving in the room. As the sickness becomes more and more virulent, staff stop coming to clean the room. Signs of vomit grow mold on the walls and particles of dirt flood the air. More beds are put into the room until it’s far out of capacity, staff spending less and less time even trying to fit beds. The stench of death becomes overwhelming, and as you play the last patient stuck in the room you desperately try to knock on the door but can’t even find the power to do so. As you walk, trying to find a bed you find none available and drop more and more pressure onto your feet. It sounds like hooves but maybe that’s just your imagination of pestilence taking hold. All you can say is the smog’s getting thicker and the light grows ever darker. It’s the only thing you can hold onto as everything else disappears, the only thing…
I really like this. Apart from its sparse narrative, which I wouldn’t want to spoil here, it does something maybe unique with its interactive design? There are so few things to click on, so it’s likely to go unnoticed, but it looks like when approaching a clickable object the camera zooms in a bit to get a closer look. (A side-benefit is that once you key into this you can stop clicking around for other interactive elements and just look around instead.)
One odd choice however: disabling the door interaction during the last bit seems like a curious mistake, precisely when that frantic banging would have been most appropriate.
this is good
SPOILERS: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT PLAYED
I’m going to assume the clopping noise and the bodies at the ending indicates the player is either Pestilence or Death. Quite interesting, it tells a story without a single word.
Yeah, that’s what I got out of it too. Disturbing in that special way that only sparsity brings out.
I got out of it that you’re a small girl locked into a room as you’re too sick to be in public. As you rest you’re able to live initially even with the rest. but more people with the same sickness get administered (deposited?) to the same room. You slowly get sicker and sicker, and you play each new person arriving in the room. As the sickness becomes more and more virulent, staff stop coming to clean the room. Signs of vomit grow mold on the walls and particles of dirt flood the air. More beds are put into the room until it’s far out of capacity, staff spending less and less time even trying to fit beds. The stench of death becomes overwhelming, and as you play the last patient stuck in the room you desperately try to knock on the door but can’t even find the power to do so. As you walk, trying to find a bed you find none available and drop more and more pressure onto your feet. It sounds like hooves but maybe that’s just your imagination of pestilence taking hold. All you can say is the smog’s getting thicker and the light grows ever darker. It’s the only thing you can hold onto as everything else disappears, the only thing…
So that’s my take.
That’s the point
Except small girl