Year: 2024
Role: Solo Developer
Made with Twine
Itch: https://yaoyaoyt.itch.io/greece
(Due to the compression of ScreenToGif, the color seems odd; for a better experience, please play through the link at the top!)
Days of Athens is more of a fun interactive travel blog than actual games. You are presented with a record of activities I did in Greece and a small writing piece on the absurdity of traveling.
Learning Twine was one of my top priorities, so I intentionally removed branches from the narrative structure. Here’s the screenshot of Twine and some writing examples! (I really love Greece >:3)
Screenshot
Sample:
But just because I don’t belong here, I get to realize how far my reach is in the massive world
I get to notice what is happening before becoming familiar and used to it
Traveling is like the “absurd reasoning” Camu mentioned in his Myth of Sisyphus: not knowing what is promised in the future but still willing to continue
Even though it was quite absurd for me to go to bookstores in Greece, in the bookstore on Santorini, I found the independent printing collection of Allen Poe.
Even though it was (loosely) the same sunset, what was before and after differentiated. It’s never quite the same and never would be exactly the same.
Maybe learning how to travel is to learn how to accept the unexpected and the absurd in another place: knowing something might fail and still going after it.
EcceHomoLudens 