Elegy For A Dead World

One surprising turn that games have taken over the past few years, specifically in the last one, is that text is coming back into games in a big way. As games have become more modern they have taken on more lavish visual effects, leaving behind any need for player imagination and spoon feeding every last detail as intensely as they can. However indie games have slowly began to bring back a little more exposition; after all the best writers in the world can convey emotions and feelings and moods so easily with a few simple words, but the best animators and designers struggle endlessly to match it.

Elegy For A Deal World is a game about writing. You take on the guise of an adventurer who is visiting four worlds, each named after a famous, classical poet. You explore slowly on a two dimensional plane and, when prompted, write the history of the world. Using your own words you write about you see, what you thought happened and what might have been.