This was fun! I knew nothing about Hittite religious rituals going in, so it was cool to learn about--fascinating how they framed it as a court case! And I had fun replaying to try to get max approval (and also max disapproval haha).
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Yay for no more haircuts!! I found this very relatable; I've had kind of the afab trans version of this experience, with people telling me my short hair made me look like a boy (as if that were a negative thing) and asking for a short haircut and then having the hairdresser cut it in such a way that it would "still look feminine". Now I cut my own hair!
Finally played this and I LOVED it--the descriptions of the cursed land, the unspooling revelations as the story went on, the use of color, the pacing controlled with the "click to proceed" links, the CHOICE and then the subversion thereof, the final revelation and the ending... ahhh it was all so well done, and I super look forward to playing anything else you make in the future!!
Oops, late response, but thank you for playing! Troy has an interesting history, going from one of the richest cities in the country to very neglected, but now on a bit of an upswing again. A fascinating book about issues connected to urban renewal, including public housing is The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein--I'm reading it now and it's been really eye-opening.
Thanks! Yeah, I would definitely do some things differently if I were making it today, but I didn't feel like fully updating it haha.
Not sure what's up with the replay button disappearing, as it seemed to be working right for me, but I did just make a few tweaks to the way I handled that link, so maybe it'll work right now!
Enjoyed this! Just a heads up, I found one small error when you're talking to Sofia but the game says "NORA" instead:
>time
PAIGE: You must be at a loose end. Long summer. What you been up to?
NORA: Reading, writing in my diary. If I'm going to write my memoirs one day, I've got to start recording now.