Eurydice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author(s): Anonymous Genre: Mythological Language: en First Publication Date: 2012-09-30 License: Freeware Rating: 3.5 (based on 37 ratings) ABOUT THE STORY A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. EXTERNAL LINKS Story File (Eurydice.2) Update of competition release. Requires a Z-Code interpreter[1] Story File Original competition release. Requires a Z-Code interpreter[1] ClubFloyd transcript NightFloyd transcript Walkthrough and map by David Welbourn EDITORIAL REVIEWS Rock Paper Shotgun Interacting With Fictions: Eurydice > It’s poignant, beautiful misery, and yet there are dry aches of wit > everywhere: We are, we divine, in the home we shared with Celine and our > housemates, where a collection of well-meaning mourners has gathered in the > living room (“you could always just retreat,” the game promises). We do not > want to have to talk to them, but should the player engage their > conversation, the result is a brilliant illustration: Social obligation wars > with private grief, discomfort and awkwardness hangs like a pall. We can’t > intrude on what they’re feeling, but privately we feel they have no right to > invade on our mourning. Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling > Happily, Eurydice manages better than many other pieces in the same general > genre of “slice of life when life totally sucks”, and this is largely down > to the writing... the writing mostly bears up under the considerable weight > put on it. It’s not easy to capture the cold formal feeling of having just > lost someone, or to expose the yowling misery underneath without becoming > unendurably cheesy. Adventure Gamers > Playing the game is an emotionally draining experience, but one that is well > worth taking on. REFERENCES [1]