lichene

narrative games by @andreamckid & @laughingpinny - working on DEATH TO VENICE

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[The Entroponaut @TheEntroponaut]

My favourite out of the four poems you get by playing this game, each of them unique, based on your choices in the run.
It's just about two hours of gameplay, filled with strong surreal imagery and evocative writing, like you would expect from the always excellent @laughingpinny

[lichene @lichenegames]

https://t.co/czNevnS24y...
Our new free game: find your (un)meanings for the last Objects surviving in the desertified collective imagination and let them spark surrealist poetry. Give in to a feverish free flow of words and pictures.

@itchio #indiegamedev #weirdgame #surrealism

[Warp Door @WarpDoor]

Eight Last Signs in the Desert (@lichenegames, @AndreaMcKid, @laughingpinny)

"A rite of shared surrealist creation, approximately 30 minutes long. One ending, several million possible surrealist poems on your way there."

Free - Browser: https://t.co/HKtUF736un

[lichene @lichenegames]

https://t.co/6cvMVIk0xy

[lichene @lichenegames]

https://t.co/OSp4PJfbR5

Trailer for our new game, a guided surrealist poetry generator, playable for free at the link in the reply.

#indiegamedev #twine #surrealism #weirdgame #interactivefiction #notawalkingsimulator

[lichene @lichenegames]

Now, at the edge of the desert, the light of the image withers away... follow a guided rite through words and images, free, 30m.
Let yourself shape a visionary flow of shifting symbols for the sheer joy of it, find your meaning as a road cone comes undone https://t.co/6cvMVIk0xy

[lichene @lichenegames]

Back from A MAZE and from Berlin! Here's BRIEFS's panel on short games feat. our @laughingpinny

https://t.co/fmPh1ikBuo

[lichene @lichenegames]

We may keep posting here too, we're still waffling about it... just know that you can find us at the other place too.

The handle there is just lichene

[lichene @lichenegames]

4/4
capitalist one.
Kind of an anti social darwinism that is still inspired by ecology and biology but acknowledges that cooperation is probably as present and important as competition both in nature and society.
Akin to Kropotkin's mutualism in evolution.

#lichene #talloèbello

[lichene @lichenegames]

1/4

When the pitch for Death to Venice won its BRIEFS grant, it was time for our development studio to have a name.

As most lichens are the result of a symbiotic relationship between algae and fungi the term is fitting to represent our artistic relationship.

#logo #artisticduo

[lichene @lichenegames]

3/4
the scientific community.

We also use the name Lichene for our studio as a broader statement of intent, even kind of a political metaphor.
It alludes to a different idea of society, a different way of interacting with each other, an alternative social contract opposed to the

[lichene @lichenegames]

6/6
...them one of such stories.
But it doesn't have to be necessarily the last one.
It all depends on the choices of the player, on the perspective on death they will outline during their playthrough.

More about them and their relationship at the link
https://t.co/P5v0aT3qg8

[lichene @lichenegames]

1/6
Death to Venice is about the encounter and the exchange between two dying characters: a person and a place. The person is in the final stage of a terminal illness and decides to spend their last days in Venice, which is the place.

#interactivefiction #textgame #keyart #wip

[lichene @lichenegames]

5/6
the result of their interactions. It's the sedimentation of innumerable stories of those who lived there.
But for a long time those stories have been dwindling, they're being reduced to mere memories.
The dying human is another of those beings and the encounter between...

[lichene @lichenegames]

3/3 The collages I put here comprise only a small selection of the shots used to create those backgrounds of the game.

On top of that, the textures (first pic) that are applied everywhere were in almost all cases also directly taken as photographs around the city and the lagoon.

[lichene @lichenegames]

1/3 A little backstage of the process leading to the visuals of Death to Venice!
First, taking countless photos in the Venice area.
Then making a montage of different bits and pieces to obtain a more or less original landscape.

[lichene @lichenegames]

2/3 Some of them are more faithful to the originals, other (like Porto Marghera here) basically result in something new.

Then editing them a lot, and painting over them, in a long and generally painstaking process to try to reach a convincing image.