Queers in Love at the End of the World
Queers in Love at the End of the World | |
---|---|
Designer(s) | Anna Anthropy |
Engine | Twine |
Platform(s) | Browser |
Release | 2013 |
Genre(s) | Interactive fiction Electronic literature |
Queers in love at the End of the World, also stylized as queers in love at the end of the world, is a hypertext game created with Twine.[1][2] Developed by Anna Anthropy in 2013 for the Ludum Dare Game Jam, the short, ten-second narrative faces players with how to interact with their partner before "(e)verything is wiped away".[3]
As of 2023, the game is hosted on Anthropy's Itch.io page.
Plot
[edit]In just ten seconds, players read through short paragraphs and selected highlighted text in order to dictate how they want to interact with their partner before the end of the world.[4] About the origin of the work, Anthropy writes, "If you only had ten seconds left with your partner, what would you do with them? What would you say? It’s a game about the transformative, transcendent power of queer love, and is dedicated to every queer I’ve loved, no matter how briefly, or for how long."[5]
Reception
[edit]Claudia Lo praised the game's embrace of queer temporality, as described in José Esteban Muñoz's Cruising Utopia.[6] At The Guardian, Cara Ellison stated that Queers "evokes an itinerant life better than any other game".[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ellison, Cara (2014-12-11). "A verse about Queers in Love at the End of the World". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ Macklin, Colleen; Sharp, John (2016-05-19). Games, Design and Play: A detailed approach to iterative game design. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN 9780134392226.
- ^ Burak, Asi; Parker, Laura. "The power of Twine". Polygon. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ Burak, Asi; Parker, Laura (2017-01-31). Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World. Macmillan. p. 211. ISBN 9781250089335.
- ^ Anthropy, Ana (17 March 2018). "Queers in Love at the End of the World". Rhizome. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
- ^ Lo, Claudia (2017). "Everything Is Wiped Away: Queer Temporality in Queers in Love at the End of the World". Camera Obscura. 32 (2): 185–192. doi:10.1215/02705346-3925194.
External links
[edit]- Queers in Love at the End of the World on Itch.io