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It’s the best part of the each day. The sky shifts from bright blues to hues of orange, pink, red, and violet as everyone makes their way round the plume of smoke. After dinner, the young ones are starting to crowd around one of the elders to hear the evening’s tale.
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That’s how we’d connect, learn about each other, and tell our stories. Today the stories we tell are predominately through electronic means moving pictures, social media, and video games.
Stories are still important to our humanity, maybe more so with our lack of in-person connection. It’s part of the reason why I seek out emotional video games… it’s not the same as connecting like we did hundreds of years ago but it is how we can connect with each other today.
When you live in a war zone and death is hunting everyone, things will look different and choices become harder. Face your fate in an unjust war to survive with your family from the shadows of war.
Time is running against you, your family is in danger and there is nowhere to hide or to do but to get them out of the home through a hero journey to a safer place.
Shooting and bombing everywhere and it will hunt you unless you make fast decisions as you progress through different events. These events are real and they will make you choose the hard way. Live or die!
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
Play Time - 1 hour
An emotional dark comedy about robots doing therapy. In Robotherapy, you're a robot therapist in a dystopian society that killed all the humans, but is still not happy. Treat patients, meet weird robots and enter their minds. If killing all humans doesn't bring happiness, then what does?
A visual novel about an abusive relationship, idealization, and intimacy. Live a summer of dysfunctional love through branching storylines, twists, sudden changes, and an innovative mechanic where you choose which senses to use with your boyfriend.
Play Time - 2 hours
This game contains representation of psychological abuse and borderline personality disorder that some may find distressing or disturbing, including those who themselves may have had similar experiences.
A Mortician's Tale is a story-driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home. Take on the role of recent funeral direction graduate Charlie as she learns the ropes of the business and industry. Prepare the bodies of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attend their funerals and listen to their loved ones' stories, and interact with Charlie's coworkers, clients, and bosses.
A Mortician's Tale is an informative, honest, and sometimes humorous look at the current state of and the future of the western death industry.
Play Time - 1 hours
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality. As the story unfolds, Gris will grow emotionally and see her world in a different way, revealing new paths to explore using her new abilities.
Play Time - 3.5 hours
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