We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in @godotengine.org. We fed it scans of the books we found. And the books are very, very strange. The "game" that resulted is also strange. We're hoping people can make sense of it for us.

🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live! 85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!) Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot

Got plans tomorrow night? Like stories? Browse ifcomp.org/ballot and pick something that fits your mood and schedule! Do that just 5 times before Oct 15, leave a rating for each, and you’re officially an IFComp judge.

The Mysteries of the Horizon

I lasted exactly four 'major' projects before slipping in a road cone as a major part of the experience, please clap

Walk across the sands. Almost there... #comingverysoon

Trundling, imagining #spark

Or rather...

This time we're character designing for real... #lichenegames #wip #nextproject

Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. André Breton

First mockup of something new... #wip #buildingsite #kaysage #surrealism

Belated love to @amazefest.bsky.social and everyone in it! @briefsge.bsky.social team, you were the best. A joyful first time at the festival (meeting the mandatory flamingo quota ofc ofc).

Back from A MAZE and from Berlin! Here's @briefsge.bsky.social‬'s panel on short games feat. our @laughingpinecone.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/xDZCnfM...

1/4 When the pitch for Death to Venice won its BRIEFS grant, it was time for our development studio to have a name. As most lichens are the result of a symbiotic relationship between algae and fungi the term is fitting to represent our artistic relationship. #logo #artisticduo

🎧 THE ART WIRE – BRIEFS Special: In this episode, host Evgeni interviews Eva and Andrea from Studio Lichene, the creative duo behind "Death to Venice", a visually rich Twine game developed for our microgame series BRIEFS in 2024: buff.ly/O9rcO1y #podcast #goldextra #theartwire #microgames #twine

1/6 Death to Venice is about the encounter and the exchange between two dying characters: a person and a place. The person is in the final stage of a terminal illness and decides to spend their last days in Venice, which is the place. #interactivefiction #textgame #keyart #workinprogress

1/3 A little backstage of the process leading to the visuals of Death to Venice! First, taking countless photos in the Venice area. Then making a montage of different bits and pieces to obtain a more or less original landscape.

We're bowled over to be among Artribune's best 10 games of 2024! @mlupetti.bsky.social's list is outstanding, our little Death to Venice being one of their favourites of the year means a lot. Go read it. All of it. bsky.app/profile/mlup...

Sneak peek into the final version of Death to Venice we @lichene.bsky.social are working on: the beginning. Entering the so-called "gronda", point of transition between land and sea in what was the Venetian Lagoon. #interactivefiction #photomanipulation #lebareneviventifannociao #vallidapesca

My monthly review column is back on Artribune. This month: Izanagi Games & Acquire's Amedama, Team Asobi's Astrobot, Lichene's Death to Venice, Jack King-Spooner & @taloketo.bsky.social's Judero and Mácula Interactive's Mexico,1921: A Deep Slumber. www.artribune.com/progettazion...

Death to Venice (lichene, laughingpineapple, McKid) "In a wounded world, you're dying. Venice - frail, alien, abandoned - welcomes you in your last moments." Free - Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Browser: warpdoor.com/2024/10/19/death-to-venice/

Hi there! Here's a concept art for our (@lichene.bsky.social) latest game, Death to Venice. There's a noticeable discrepancy between them and the current game because while the game is complete, we want to further enrich it, especially its presentation. DX version eventually... #interactivefiction

Take part in a collective rite of putrefaction in DEATH TO VENICE, free on itch.io as part of the Briefs 2024 Death Collection lichene.itch.io/death-to-ven... itch.io/b/2656/brief...

An intro post on here too: We think that interactive fiction is really cool. Here's to exploring its possibilities