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Download link:
http://www.quintessence-tbv.com/The_Mirror_Lied.exe
[ ~4mb, ~15 minutes of game-play. ]
Characters & Setting:
A faceless girl in a faceless world.


Music:
An entire original soundtrack composed by yours truly.
With a grand total of 1 song.


Interaction:
Nearly every item on any map is interactive.
Length
~15 minutes.

[From "Volrath"]
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I saw it as a commentary on nuclear warfare, taking place sometime in the future during a nuclear holocaust. I noted that the dates on the calendar extended beyond 2008, and the vanishing continents could represent the world slowly being destroyed by nukes. "Birdie" is reminiscent of the cutesy names given to the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (i.e. "Little Boy"). The caller's insistence that Leah may be able to "kill" Birdie reveals humanity's complicity in nuclear destruction...if we could scrounge up the courage, we could come together and put an end to all of it. I could be totally off..or letting my own opinions on foreign policy inform this. I won't hide that I think nuclear attacks are a cowardly form of warfare, an inflated form of hit-and-run, and something that treats its victims as...faceless, ignoring their individual humanity.
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[From "Kemuri"]
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It's not very clear what happens, it leaves a lot up to the player to decide what everything means.

Like for me, personally, I want to be a game developer, that's my dream, and I know it'll probably never happen. My parents would never support it, and they just want me to have a regular job that pays well, and doesn't risk my future. For me, the birdie was like my dream, the house was the confines of the world. The person calling/emailing was my dad telling me to kill my "birdie" and stay in the "house". Watering the plant was all the effort I've poured into getting out of the "house". The fire was the daily problems of life that are always blown out of proportion in the moment, but all you really need to do is sleep them off and those huge problems suddenly disappear. In the end, I'm living my dream (flying with the birdie, above the house) but I'll never be able to make it all the way to the end of my life living that dream. By choosing the dream instead of the safer path in life, I've pulled the trigger on my future.

This is probably nothing like what you were trying to convey, and maybe I'm reading far too deeply into things, but my point is that every single person who plays this game will get something different out of it. There is no universal "answer" even if that's what you intended. The games' ambiguity forces the player to draw from their own experiences.

This will make an amazing game for some, and leave many others scratching their heads wondering what the heck just happened.
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