There Is A Hole In Your Chest
A downloadable game
There is a
Hole in your
Chest and it
Swallows every thing.
This is a game about loss, grief, anxiety, dysphoria, depression, dysmorphia, and every other part of you that guts you with a gnawing, aching void, something that feels like it will never go away.
It can also be about having an horrifying chest-mouth.
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Made for the 36 Word RPG game jam!
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I like the presentation of the entry and general idea of the mouth in the chest. It sparks imagination.
However, I would welcome something more advanced or innovative than flipping a coin. Using the die could introduce hunger cooldown in hours, plus modifier equal to the size of the meal or something. That could push the bearer of the chest-mouth into neverending hunt for food (real or metaphorical) with different windows in time during which they could feel full.
Yeah, constrained by the 36 word limit, and the self-imposed 3 words per line really constrained what I was doing with this. For me, the important part of having it be a coin flip is that whatever you are trying to stuff into yourself to sate the hole doesn't actually matter. At best, you only get a little bit of relief before it starts again. This is the part that really more ties it to the metaphorical representation of being stuck in a spiral of grief or depression.
Ouch. This one hurts, but I love the simplicity of the mechanism.
Thanks, that means a lot, means I nailed what I was going for. I've definitely been in the sort of spirals this poem-game is about, I hope you've been able to pull out of them too.