Queers in Love at the End of the World

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Queers in Love at the End of the World
Designer(s) Anna Anthropy
Engine Twine
Platform(s) Browser
Release2013
Genre(s) Interactive fiction
Electronic literature

Queers in love at the End of the World, also stylized as queers in love at the end of the world, is a hypertext game created with Twine. [1] [2] Developed by Anna Anthropy in 2013 for the Ludum Dare Game Jam, the short, ten-second narrative faces players with how to interact with their partner before "(e)verything is wiped away". [3]

Contents

As of 2023, the game is hosted on Anthropy's Itch.io page.

Plot

In just ten seconds, players read through short paragraphs and selected highlighted text in order to dictate how they want to interact with their partner before the end of the world. [4] About the origin of the work, Anthropy writes, "If you only had ten seconds left with your partner, what would you do with them? What would you say? It’s a game about the transformative, transcendent power of queer love, and is dedicated to every queer I’ve loved, no matter how briefly, or for how long." [5]

Reception

Claudia Lo praised the game's embrace of queer temporality, as described in José Esteban Muñoz's Cruising Utopia . [6] At The Guardian , Cara Ellison stated that Queers "evokes an itinerant life better than any other game". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Ellison, Cara (2014-12-11). "A verse about Queers in Love at the End of the World". the Guardian. Archived from the original on 2018-04-28. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  2. Macklin, Colleen; Sharp, John (2016-05-19). Games, Design and Play: A detailed approach to iterative game design. Addison-Wesley Professional. ISBN   9780134392226.
  3. Burak, Asi; Parker, Laura. "The power of Twine". Polygon. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
  4. Burak, Asi; Parker, Laura (2017-01-31). Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World. Macmillan. p. 211. ISBN   9781250089335.
  5. Anthropy, Ana (17 March 2018). "Queers in Love at the End of the World". Rhizome. Archived from the original on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
  6. Lo, Claudia (2017). "Everything Is Wiped Away: Queer Temporality in Queers in Love at the End of the World". Camera Obscura. 32 (2): 185–192. doi:10.1215/02705346-3925194.