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I really enjoyed this. Its a very potent depiction of an experience I've only had a few times in my life - being awake in the city before everyone else, and having nowhere to be. I love how at times you play the eye, wandering around the skyline, looking for something that might provoke a thought. I found it really striking that as the lights are turning on one by one throughout the game you can digest each one, but when they turn on all at once towards the end they stop communicating to you.

Really cool experience, I don't think I've played a game poem before so thank you for introducing them to me!

bibliomancer4 days ago

Hey, thanks for playing - it sounds like the intended experience really made sense to you, I'm pleased to hear it. And doubly glad to serve as a first encounter with game poems -- there's some really interesting work in the form all over Itch, perhaps it's something up your alley for a future work too?

Jack Turps4 days ago

Oooo if you have any recommendations of other game poems that you like I’d love to hear them!

Poetry in games has been rattling around my mind a surprising amount lately. Gameplay loops and poetry both share this trait of rewarding repetition and study, I’d love to explore that at some point.

bibliomancer2 days ago

For sure! It's honestly great timing to get into the form -- the first Game Poems literary magazine came out just a couple months ago, which includes a good range of that kind of work: https://gamepoems.itch.io/game-poems-issue-1-first-moves. One of the editorial leads, Jordan Magnuson, also put out a book a few years ago on the topic, which is a great starting place too: https://www.gamepoemsbook.com/.

Honestly it's still a very fluid genre and there's a lot of folks on Itch putting stuff out in the process of figuring out it's constraints -- the "game-poems" tag on here is a great sampler too: https://itch.io/games/tag-game-poem.