I played through much of the story in one sitting, within one night, and I believe I came to some conclusion after another day of play. I was an impressionable young creative who had a mind soaked in unreality and a longing for things as strange as I was. I got a marker and stared at the screen, sucked into this world surrounded by the darkness of my room, navigating imagination through the kind of ever-fraying sleep deprivation that is unique to schools. But even among all of those, this was different.
Before it there had been webcomics, DeviantArt choose-your-own stories, Quizilla supernatural romances, online forum roleplays. "With Those We Love Alive" was the first piece of online interactive fiction of this kind that I remember engaging with. It's time again! Join the queers as we play a whole bunch of games by amazing game designer and queen of the slime girls Porpentine! Two Queers Play! The Porpentine Power Hour: Slime Time Live
it was also painful and demanding to experience. The work itself is beautifully made, the words and images striking, the music effective, the mechanic of skin-drawing evocative and lovely. Her writing is so carefully measured, vivid yet small bursts, and a soundtrack by Brenda Neotenomie wraps the world around you. With Those We Love Alive is a free Twine game by Porpentine, a moving visit to a mundanely monstrous world. Physically Interactive Fiction: With Those We Love Alive It’s inventive and off-putting all at once. this particular game asks of the player a particularly-intimate task: to draw symbols on your own skin while playing.
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