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SUDDEN DEATH is a free slice of interactive fiction about love, drugs, and Australian footballsome of it is also about chips
some of it is also about chips
Image credit:BENNY BARASSI/GEELONG CATGIRL
Image credit:BENNY BARASSI/GEELONG CATGIRL
The closest I have come to having any interest in sport is when I got really into reading about football hooligans, or like,Blood Bowl, but I do absolutely recognise the romance of it all.SUDDEN DEATHis a deliciousfreeslice of playable art-pie that celebrates that romance. It is -saysdev Cécile, who co-made the project withNat PussyandMOTHER GOOSEfor collectiveDomino Club- “a game about love and sports. it’s gay, it’s very australian, and it’s great.” You can tell it’s Australian quickly, because people call chips ‘chippies’, whichmakes me chuffed.
It’s interactive fiction, but uses mixed media to tell its tale of love, drugs, and footy, jumping between authorial prose, conversations, online news articles, comment sections, and text messages. It sometimes feels like being allowed a look at an evidence file of snapshots leading up to the terrible event you suspect might be coming.
Conversations are chatty and breezy, but both the prose and visual style are just that bit slanted and haunted, and its punkish, DIY exterior contains a lot of genuine warmth. At one point, one character makes a joke to another, and that person just laughs for a while in response. I honed in on this because I dig this sort of dialogue, where jokes don’t just act as quips for the audience, but as shared moments between people.
I think it’s cool, and you might too. You can play it in your browser,via Itch.
