25 episodes

"You wake in an unknown place. You don't know where you are or how you got here."

Amnesia and danger. In video games, it's a familiar scene---so familiar that its weirdness has been worn away by repetition. It's a trope! It happens all the time! Characters get amnesia; it's just what they do. They get amnesia, explore their world, pick things up, and fight monsters.

But these tropes become a lot less familiar when they're plopped into the pages of a book, where (in the absence of a player) characters are expected to have motivations that are entirely their own. Why would a character who is lost and scared "go north," "get food," or "attack monster"? How does it feel to "search corpse"? What does someone actually do when instructed to "check inventory"?

To plumb these depths, I made a game. I recruited friends to play the game. Then I adapted that experience into a book. And I made that book into a radio drama.

This is the result. I hope you enjoy it.

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"You wake in an unknown place. You don't know where you are or how you got here."

Amnesia and danger. In video games, it's a familiar scene---so familiar that its weirdness has been worn away by repetition. It's a trope! It happens all the time! Characters get amnesia; it's just what they do. They get amnesia, explore their world, pick things up, and fight monsters.

But these tropes become a lot less familiar when they're plopped into the pages of a book, where (in the absence of a player) characters are expected to have motivations that are entirely their own. Why would a character who is lost and scared "go north," "get food," or "attack monster"? How does it feel to "search corpse"? What does someone actually do when instructed to "check inventory"?

To plumb these depths, I made a game. I recruited friends to play the game. Then I adapted that experience into a book. And I made that book into a radio drama.

This is the result. I hope you enjoy it.

    25: Day Two

    25: Day Two

    • 12 min
    24: A Cold Site

    24: A Cold Site

    • 6 min
    23: All the Way Around

    23: All the Way Around

    • 8 min
    22: Battleship

    22: Battleship

    • 8 min
    21: With Borrowed Plans

    21: With Borrowed Plans

    • 7 min
    20: Contrails

    20: Contrails

    • 8 min

Customer Reviews

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2 Ratings

M Doss ,

Great story

I love it. You should do more.

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