don’t have to kiss me just bear with me

Hallstatt Salt Mines, Austria

Picture it! One of those point and click, room by room adventure games (grim fandango, broken age, day of the tentacle, the inner world, to name some of my favs) where your character has to move through a world and advance by interacting with objects and characters.

The plot would barely even have to be changed? The majority of the book is exploration, and would work well as just player character Gideon moving through Canaan house and discovering things. A lot of the scenes don’t necessarily need to happen in a defined order, and could happen as the player progressed in whatever way they chose. Because a lot of the characters are off doing their own thing so much of the time, they could be stationary figures that you could come up to and interact with through dialogue trees.

There would need to be some sort of combat mechanic, and a LOT of cutscenes and/or fixed dialogues, especially toward the more plot heavy end, but even so

Plus then there’s SO MUCH potential for really cool art and visuals and interesting character designs!! And if really feels like the plot would exist most naturally this way, this book would never ever work as a movie or something

I can picture it so well! The first scene waiting for the shuttle provides a perfect opportunity for a closed off area for tutorial mechanisms. You could spend so much time running around Canaan House and exploring things and discovering doors and meeting the characters including Dulcinea lounging around with her romance novels and being cryptic, and Palamedes and Camilla would just be waiting around by the hatch for you to stumble across and lead you to Harrow in her cocoon. When you go down to the facility with Harrow you could get stuck down there until you progressed far enough through the challenges to get out. The first lab you unlocked is a perfect opportunity for bopping around and finding cool objects to store away for later. And then when you come back to the room with Jeannemary, you’re locked in their until you make the active choice to go to sleep, so it feels like you’re responsible for her death! Etc etc etc

Schloss Hellbrunn, Austria

the only person i'd run through an airport for is you.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretended he wasn't wearing them.

I'm doing a little messy-sketch prompt game over on my Bluesky, and these are the first six I've done so far <3

EDIT: Added the 7th and final one from this batch :3

prompts under the cut: