FR: Une newsletter aujourd’hui totalement en anglais, à propos de jeux uniquement écrits en anglais. Rendez-vous dans le prochain mail pour des actus francophones !
EN: Special newsletter, again. All about English-writen solo games. Same mood as my 17th newsletter: handwriten texts with small drawings, all about grieving and a bit of self-care. Links and transcript at the end if you can’t read the pictures. Take care!
(All games are linked if you click on the picture. Links are also listed at the end of this newsletter)
Thanks for reading me, please take care. Next newsletter should be a “normal” one with news and cool joyful links.
Links
Transcript
Handwriten text with small sketches and doodles of flowers. Here’s my complete handwriten text, transcripted:
Content warning: grief.
A few months after beginning this newsletter, and so a few months after a grief as I said in my 17th newsletter… well, it was your turn to die. it was unexpected. As if you were giving me the go for a new “start” but without letting me the choice… even if I don’t want a “new” life without you. I don’t have a choice. I miss you. I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to you. You were still alive when I left, I found you already dead when I came back only a few hours later. I’ve blamed myself for that and for thinking it was my fault: did I do your injections wrong on that week? Did I fail to interpret your signs of weakness on that day? There’s nothing I can do now. You’re gone and I didn’t say goodbye to you.
Mourning is difficult. Always. It’s already a year now… Time soothes. That’s all I’m waiting for & that’s what many of you from itchio know too. Thanks to all authors sharing their thoughts and feelings, I highly appreciate your games and testimonies.
Take care.
Here’s a thematic list in the same mood of the one I shared in my 17th newsletter:
Content warning: grief, death, cathartic experiences and all similar things.
There are games to say goodbye…
Laika, by melody watson: Prepare yourself and say goodbye the same way they may have say goodbye to Laika the first dog sent to space.
One of These Nights, by Samuel Mui Shen Em aka BubblegumSam: Remember your loved one by reading this game/experience, it’s like thinking “goodbye and I love you.”
There are games to remember…
Sleeping in your Heart, by Alyssa Yeo: Remember your four-legged beloved family member… One year ago, 6 months after, 6 months before…
And You Will Rest Your Head on Your Parent’s Grave, by Tracy Barnett: Remember by answering a question per day, for 54 days (54 cards)
Remembering David, by Small Red Robin13: Think about their smile, a joyful memory or a familiar place…
Your Father’s CDs, by catsket: Remember them thanks to the items they have loved…
Last Tea Shop, by spring villager: Retrace the lives and memories of the deceased, over a cup of tea.
Pagpag, by Mitzi Tuquiero: Remember by taking a quiet time for yourself, after the wake or after visiting memorial site.
There are games to think about grief process…
Grief (as I experience it), by Vian Nguyen: Answer one question for each step of grief process.
There are games to take care of yourself and go on a new start…
Sunrise, by Dreamor: Looking at the sun everyday, noticing notable sunrises. Because life’s going on…
And there are games to speak about moving. Like, I’m truly moving in real life. It’s a new departure.
My Life in Cardboard, by Albi Furlan: Rediscover your own memories in 10 cardboards/sheets.
We Don’t Live Here Anymore, by C.R. Legge: Think about what you’ll miss but open yourself to your new life.
When we lose beloved ones, our world collapses. We need to remember while also building a new world to live in.
I miss you. Both.
Thanks for reading me, please take care. Next newsletter should be a “normal” one with news and cool joyful links.