After Orpheus
A downloadable game
Made for Jay Dragon's Jam in Silence.
To those that would have followed them anywhere.
This is is a game about what haunts us when those we love pass. It's based upon my own experience of the loss of my partner. This game is a meditation of grief.
What you need to play:
- Someone you love deeply, someone you'd go to the ends of the earth for (deceased).
-Grief.
-Time (both to play and time as distance from their death. I recommend at least eight months.)
- Something to write or record your message with.
- 2d6.
This is not a happy game. This game is about grief. Play only what you can. If you need help, please call a hotline or coldline.
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– lucky foot
Powerful, touching game. Amazing work.
Oh. Yeah, just reading it made me tear up. Very pretty game.