Saturday, November 17, 2018

The Sound of Black Wings

Painting by  Mikoláš Aleš.
The Sound of Black Wings is the result of NaGaDeMon 2018.  The horror game* grew out of experiences running around the woods when I was a kid and some of the weirder happenings when I began bird watching as an adult:  deer staring at us in unsettling ways, getting lost on looping trails, abandoned hospitals peeping out above the treeline, the strange laughter of other bird watchers.  As the game unfolds, players narrate the experiences (and growing tensions) of a group of bird watchers, and then describe what happens to the group when things go horribly wrong.

*  I started to write "survival horror game" but realized that would be terribly misleading.  Everyone in The Sound of Black Wings dies.

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