Technically this was launched final Christmas however it feels each bit as recent and related now because it did then. Media-collage-abusing developer Jack King-Spooner (creator of Dujanah) needs to share with us the story of three shepherds on an extended winter’s night time, awoken to share tales gifted to them by the heavens above.
And all of it begins with essentially the most grungy, city retelling of The Little Match Girl that I’ve ever had the fortune to listen to.
You can discover Jack King-Spooner’s unusual little Christmas anthology here on Itch.io. It can run direct in a browser however does have a downloadable model obtainable in case you’d quite.
It’s solely ten or fifteen minutes lengthy, so received’t dig too deep into your reserves of free time, and it’s properly price a peek. So, what did you suppose?
Personally, I discovered all of it a bit like being advised a deeply miserable story of tragedy and loss by an affable clown, the story someway retaining its bitter edge regardless of being advised by way of the medium of unexpectedly improvised balloon animals. Some would describe it as tonal whiplash, however that may require both side taking priority over the opposite for a second. Not so right here – the world-weary tone by no means wavers, nor the whimsical Scots-tinged narration.
If you’ve acquired a style for this explicit model of offbeat storytelling, you’d do properly to take a look at Jack’s other works, such because the cheerfully hellish Will You Ever Return collection, in addition to the sludgy sci-fi haze of the Sluggish Morss. His business releases to this point are Beeswing, a pseudo-autobiographical quick about his personal childhood in rural Scotland, and the newer Dujanah, a middle-eastern story of mourning painted in lurid, dreamlike tones interspersed with conventional videogame imagery – big robots, spider-demons and FMV-laden arcade video games – to superbly surreal impact.
Merry Christmas every body. Stay secure, and should your holidays be equal elements cheerful and peculiar.
