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AUTUMN IN THE CITY is a short, narrative-driven isometric horror game about guilt.
You are ANDREW TRLAFAR, a man wandering about the streets of FRANCE after a nuclear bomb has been dropped over it, when you hear a noise coming from inside your neighbor's apartment. You decide to investigate, and descend into a web of lies, rituals, and sacrifice.
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AUTUMN IN THE CITY is a short, narrative-driven isometric horror game about guilt.
You are ANDREW TRLAFAR, a man wandering about the streets of FRANCE after a nuclear bomb has been dropped over it, when you hear a noise coming from inside your neighbor's apartment. You decide to investigate, and descend into a web of lies, rituals, and sacrifice.
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00:01In May 1968, the French people attempted to overthrow their government.
00:06They failed to protect the Republic.
00:08France began to shoot at their own people.
00:11It is now October.
00:18Okay, everybody, welcome back.
00:20This is Nezuko with another game for y'all.
00:25This is called Autumn in the City,
00:27and I'm doing this specifically because the game developer reached out to me.
00:33I'm going to have a link for the game.
00:35It's totally free.
00:36If you like it, please give the developer at least a dollar or two.
00:40They work really hard on these games.
00:43Yeah, it's called Autumn in the City,
00:45and it is a short, narrative-driven, isometric horror game about guilt.
00:52We're playing Andrew Trollifar, I guess is how you say it.
00:58Forgive me if I'm butchering that.
00:59A man wandering about the streets of France after a nuclear bomb has been dropped over it.
01:04When you hear a noise coming from inside your neighbor's apartment,
01:07you decide to investigate and descend into a web of lies, rituals, and sacrifice.
01:13So it sounds exciting.
01:14Let's get into it.
01:16It's Autumn in the City.
01:22It must be well past midnight now.
01:25A not-unpleasant wind sneaks through the awnings of a towering apartment block.
01:31To your south is a small canal, fall leaves covering the water.
01:35To your east is a salmon-bripped housing complex.
01:39You know, it's actually salmon.
01:43I still say salmon every once in a while.
01:46My daughter, of all people, corrected me on that.
01:49She said, no, Dad, it's salmon.
01:52The L is silent.
01:53I said, no, no, no.
01:55Everyone's mispronounced it with me.
01:56It's salmon.
01:57That's the correct way to pronounce it.
01:59So, I was wrong.
02:02The spirits here mingle with the thinning wind.
02:05The breeze mix in with spirit whispers.
02:08Press Q to view the ghost here.
02:12What will you do?
02:16All very cool.
02:18Very cool.
02:20So you can swap in and out of the spirit world.
02:27I like how it takes a minute for it to warm up, too.
02:35A young-looking man weathered by...
02:38Oh, God.
02:39I can't pronounce that.
02:41A ratalian?
02:42A ratalian?
02:44Fall?
02:45Nods at you with sunken eyes dug out of an older man's skull.
02:50And some nicer...
02:52A ratal...
02:53A ratal?
02:55I'm so sorry.
02:56The young man's sitting at a cafe and patiently waiting for a date.
03:01Who's at the wrong cafe and won't make it.
03:03Sorry.
03:05Oh, this is going to be depressing, isn't it?
03:08He has a cup of spare change that's empty, but doesn't matter.
03:13I think it's for sale anymore.
03:16You.
03:17Hard times?
03:19Bum.
03:20Hard times my whole life.
03:22Me.
03:24Fantasma?
03:24Oh, God.
03:27I took no French in high school.
03:29I apologize.
03:31I was probably the worst person for you to recommend this game to.
03:36Oh, why aren't you inside the complex?
03:38It's unlocked.
03:40Bum.
03:40Can't stay there for more than a minute.
03:42That police tossing me out.
03:44Police still patrol here?
03:48Well, nah.
03:49Police only patrol if you show up with cash.
03:52And nobody would pay to protect this street.
03:55They come anyways, if you call enough, though.
03:58Good practice, bum like me.
04:01What's your story?
04:03Know anything about who lives in that apartment?
04:05Why aren't she sleeping?
04:10Oh.
04:12Oh.
04:13Okay.
04:17Okay, let's, let's, let's pick this one.
04:19Know anything about who lives in that apartment?
04:22Yeah, yeah, an old lady and her girl.
04:31This quiet guy and her.
04:36Hmm.
04:38Tell me about her.
04:41Jesus, guy.
04:44Don't dig up any ancient fucking memories.
04:46Oh, quite.
04:47Blonde college girl, college age girl.
04:52Rich, I guess, though.
04:53Not sure that matters much here.
04:56Not rich enough to get out of here.
04:59Besides, that psychopath probably enjoyed it here.
05:02What exactly did she do?
05:06Before the angel, we dated for a little bit, I guess.
05:10Then I found out about her.
05:12How you say, occupation.
05:14She was a hooker.
05:15You, what?
05:18She was a prostitute?
05:19What?
05:20No, no.
05:21Worse.
05:23Worse.
05:24Worse.
05:25The bump closes his eyes in shuddering pain.
05:28Best to drop it.
05:31Can we press him to keep going?
05:34Jesus, guy.
05:35Don't dig up my ancient...
05:36Okay, so he's just gonna say the same thing.
05:39Okay.
05:41Okay, hold on, just saying.
05:42Okay.
05:45See, I'm intrigued now.
05:46I wanna know...
05:47I wanna know what's worse and worse than being a prostitute.
05:52Okay.
05:53Tell me about the quiet guy.
06:00Bump.
06:00He keeps to himself.
06:02He walks in and out with a big thing of books every few days.
06:06Asked for him.
06:07Asked him for spare change once.
06:09He just looked to me blankly like he was clear.
06:11Nice guy.
06:14Yeah, well...
06:15Judge a man by his enemies, huh?
06:19Okay.
06:22They certainly sound like characters.
06:26Wait.
06:31Okay, let's leave him.
06:32All right.
06:43I gotta say already, I mean, I'm just a few minutes in, but I really like how simple...
06:50Like, it's leading you down a path while you still have choices and freedom to do what you want.
06:56It's clearly directing you with a strong narrative flow.
07:00So, I mean, I'm already very impressed with this game.
07:03It's better designed than at least 50%, 75% of the games that we've come across.
07:10Especially for a free game.
07:12That was one of the most frustrating things about some of those Fears of Fathom clones.
07:17Is they may have aped the style, but they did not understand the story structure.
07:24And how to make an intuitive game, you know.
07:29That's part of game development is understanding how most people are going to react to the stimuli you're giving them.
07:36Okay, I'm going to shut up now.
07:37A stout ghost man rests his head on the dull gray concrete.
07:41He is, or rather was, wearing a thick green-blue flannel.
07:46He's scared.
07:48Is it scared or scarred?
07:50I think it's scarred.
07:52Uh-oh.
07:56I goofed.
08:01Okay, hang on.
08:02There we go.
08:03Ghost man.
08:04Where is it?
08:06Where is it?
08:11Oh, is that it?
08:12Okay.
08:16Okay, so that's...
08:18Not everyone's going to have a huge story to tell.
08:22What's this?
08:22A scrawny, redundant girl is in a tattered beige coat.
08:30Dangles a formerly white cigarette in her formerly alive mouth.
08:35Okay.
08:36The ghost girl's skin is the phosphorus blue.
08:40Looks not pleasantly like an ostrich egg's surface.
08:44She even has the mole speckled across her face.
08:47She speaks in a low, raspy voice.
08:50The ghost girl.
08:55It wasn't there.
08:57I searched for it, and it wasn't there.
09:00The ghost girl isn't looking at you.
09:02She has nothing to say to you.
09:04Okay.
09:09Okay.
09:10Well, she's not really a girl.
09:11She's smoking, is she?
09:13Okay, so clicking on either one of these will give you.
09:21Can we go in here?
09:23Oh, we can.
09:24Okay.
09:29What's here?
09:29Where there was a door, there is a calling space that is kind of a dreamcatcher for ghosts.
09:36Okay.
09:37But no, it's not time yet.
09:38You feel yourself being called towards the room behind this door to be swallowed up by it.
09:44But it is necessary first to know who you are.
09:47Okay, so we've got to solve the mystery, and then we'll come back to that door.
09:53Apparently.
09:53Uh-oh.
09:55It is autumn in the city again.
09:58It must be well past midnight now.
10:00Not no pleasant wind sneaks through the autumn.
10:03To your south is a small canal of fall, and you just come in the water.
10:06And you say, okay, this is...
10:10Okay, this is...
10:12That's the outside.
10:14My bad.
10:14I'm screwed up.
10:15All right, so don't go there.
10:22Okay, go in here.
10:29I keep hitting shift like I can run.
10:35Ahem.
10:36Oh, man.
10:39I was going to say, it looks like someone hung by themselves.
10:41Hung by a sturdy noose is your lifeless body.
10:45You are a younger man with...
10:48...across your bluish-white face.
10:51There's a small postcard.
10:52Hold on.
10:53That's ringing.
10:55Okay, there we go.
10:56Sorry.
10:57Spam call.
10:58Hung by a sturdy noose is your lifeless body.
11:01You are a younger man with laugh lines across your bluish-white face.
11:05There is a small postcard underneath your feet.
11:08It has a little palm tree, and it smells like artificial grape.
11:12Many parts of it are scratched out and started out.
11:16So, I'm looking at my own corpse, apparently.
11:17I mean, it's dressed just like me.
11:21So, I'm looking at my own corpse, apparently.
11:22I mean, it's dressed just like me, so it makes sense.
11:23Um, the idea was to drop it on one of those areas the rioters had occupied.
11:28We didn't understand that there was no occupation of external force.
11:31Rioters, civilians, they were all the people.
11:32I'm looking at my own corpse.
11:33I'm looking at my own corpse, apparently.
11:34I mean, it's dressed just like me, so it makes sense.
11:35Um, the idea was to drop it on one of those areas the rioters had occupied.
11:52We didn't understand that there was no occupation of external force.
11:57Rioters, civilians, they were all the people.
12:02I was the tiebreaker.
12:03So, I'm here.
12:04Kick me.
12:05Spit on me whatever.
12:07Do what you will.
12:08When you're done, just please forget about me.
12:11Brick up the wall.
12:12Leave the postcard.
12:14Let me confess to God forever.
12:19With love, the tiebreaker.
12:21Oh, so I'm guessing I'm somehow responsible for this nuclear war.
12:28There it is.
12:29Now you know who you are, you suppose.
12:31Maybe there's someone around here that's looking for you?
12:34That's what I just meant.
12:54Oh.
12:59Oh, shit.
13:13Sorry.
13:14I got you.
13:29I can't get up there.
13:32I can't get up there.
13:45Well, I don't want to go out so I can go away.
13:48Oh.
13:53Am I still walking?
13:54Nope, okay.
13:59Yup.
14:00Never went.
14:01Yeah, I can't get up there.
14:04Man, I hope I didn't leave kids behind or something.
14:32All right, well, there doesn't seem to be anything in that room.
14:46This has almost a very 16-bit kind of feel.
14:50Oh man, I keep doing it.
14:52Can I go through there now?
14:53Oh, I can't.
14:56A distended woman careens over a small table.
15:01She folds over herself like taffy.
15:03Her breath reeks of cogs and glass.
15:07If you get up close, you can see a whole factory in her mouth.
15:14The woman speaks in a begrudging murmur.
15:16Who's there?
15:17I'll get you, the old who's there.
15:21What?
15:22The woman looks up at you.
15:24Oh, it's you.
15:26And the woman promptly passes out again.
15:30She's alive, right?
15:32I know this is a short game so I'm like expecting it to end at any moment.
15:36Um...
15:37Okay, I'm guessing I have to go here.
15:50Okay.
15:51Okay.
15:52Two girls, one college age with dirty blonde hair and brown petticoat over a frilly white
15:58shirt, and the other a teenager, half-stomber.
16:01Same face as the woman in the other room.
16:03They are surrounded by dimming candles and a hastily drawn red circle.
16:07One of them is holding a thick burgundy book that's been around forever.
16:12She has to hold it a little diagonally or it'll fall apart.
16:15Its pages are brown dog-eared.
16:17She's been crying.
16:18Hold on.
16:19Gotta take a stiff drink.
16:26Ah!
16:27They don't seem to notice you.
16:30The scrawny girl says, Autumn, just get up and walk away, please.
16:36Autumn says, no, Mella.
16:39There's nothing left out there.
16:41You went to college, Autumn.
16:43There's loads.
16:44Yeah.
16:45For marketing.
16:46Can't machine a piston with that, can't you?
16:49Then buy your way out of this shithole.
16:52Like, I don't feel so bad about cussing now.
16:54The game's cussing, so we're...
16:56It's in good company.
16:57You want a young woman to walk, what, 60 miles?
17:01With literally no people with cars.
17:04No, we don't.
17:06We don't know.
17:07We don't know people who want to drive us through police territory.
17:11Look, you're missing the point.
17:14The degree doesn't matter, Mella.
17:16I'm on, how you say.
17:19Like, when a house is built wrong.
17:22I'm so lost.
17:23Bad foundations.
17:26If you bring up your job again.
17:28There's blood on my hands, Mella.
17:31I'm sorry, I keep bringing it up.
17:33Mella motions to get up.
17:35Look, I can't do this.
17:37Wait, wait, look.
17:39This is just a stupid thing, okay?
17:41It's just to make me feel a little better, okay?
17:44We can get through this.
17:45Then I'll look into a car or something.
17:47Try to get out of here.
17:49You just have to do this little thing for me, okay?
17:52And then I'll be over.
17:54Oh, I'll be over.
17:56Fuck, fine.
17:57Let's run through this again.
17:59Okay.
18:00Autumn takes a deep breath.
18:02Mella gingerly opens up a page of the burgundy book and starts reading.
18:07Spirits, hear my wayward call.
18:10Spirits, hear my wayward call.
18:13I would like to draw upon the mana in the room.
18:17Autumn says the same.
18:20And draw.
18:22Oh, I'm being summoned.
18:24Oh, this is pretty cool.
18:25And draw the memory of Andrew.
18:27I swear it's spelled differently every time.
18:34And draw the memory of Andrew Tlarfar.
18:38Into the body of Autumn.
18:40Yidling.
18:41What?
18:42Into my body.
18:44And then a horrible sinking feeling and a flashing light.
18:47And you enter the bottom of Autumn.
18:50You possess her.
18:52Mella.
18:53Autumn.
18:54Autumn, are you gay?
18:55Uh, says Autumn.
18:56Why?
18:57Why did you summon me?
18:59Come on, Autumn.
19:00That's not funny.
19:02I'm afraid I'm not joking.
19:04My name is Andrew Tlarfar.
19:06I am one of the security councilmen responsible for dropping a nuclear bomb on the suburbs of
19:13France.
19:14You speak unsettling through Autumn's voice.
19:17Why did you summon me?
19:20Mella stutters.
19:21I, I, I summoned you in order to, to destroy your spirit.
19:27I want to exorcise you out of our town.
19:31And you believe this will?
19:34I think he'll make us all.
19:36Maybe more hopeful.
19:37I don't know.
19:38The specter haunting France.
19:41And, and what?
19:42You want to kill Autumn?
19:44No.
19:45No this.
19:46This was all Autumn's idea.
19:48Mostly I guess I told her jokingly about the stupid book I was reading.
19:53Melan gestures vaguely to the burgundy book.
19:56It was a book of old rituals.
19:58Whatever the hell they are.
20:00Rituals that speak of mana and ghosts.
20:04Mana.
20:05No.
20:06No this.
20:07This isn't the interesting, isn't the interesting.
20:10Mana everywhere.
20:11Coagulating in attic corners and in memories.
20:15It's a nice idea.
20:16The book makes it seem like magic is precisely where the world is most mundane.
20:21It's a nice idea.
20:22And you believe in it?
20:25Autumn did.
20:26God.
20:27And Autumn's different story.
20:31This game is wild man.
20:33We've gone from a nuclear holocaust to witchcraft.
20:36Oh.
20:41So tell me about your, tell me about yourself.
20:45Sure I guess.
20:46I'll start with who I was before the blast.
20:49Two different people?
20:51Oh.
20:52Maybe.
20:53Different enough situations to do it.
20:56If there was any situation to do it.
20:59Yeah.
21:00Um.
21:01My teacher said I all, I was all bubbly and stuff.
21:06But I, I had trouble sitting still.
21:08And I think studying broadly to work in the finance sector.
21:12I wanted to watch the money flow in and out of bodies.
21:16This is wild.
21:17But there's no bodies anymore.
21:21Yeah.
21:22And no money.
21:23Oh.
21:24Now I don't know.
21:25There's an old library that's close to, that's closed down during the revolution.
21:30All its windows are broken now.
21:32I go there sometimes.
21:33I read.
21:34Mostly I just walk around the city though.
21:36I walk for hours.
21:38What do you do while you walk?
21:41Nothing.
21:42I don't do anything else.
21:43I'm not even sure I look around.
21:45I, I just, I just, I need to keep moving.
21:49Your mother is awful, huh?
21:54Chuck Mella chuckles quietly.
21:57Yeah.
21:58I guess.
21:59I don't know.
22:00That bum outside said she screams at you.
22:03Yeah.
22:04Well.
22:05Come on.
22:06Don't defend her.
22:08I, I'm sorry Mr. Andrew.
22:09But I get it.
22:10Even before dad died she was so high struck.
22:13She juggled everything.
22:15Like an infinite set of objects.
22:18Does it mean she can't drink herself half to death?
22:21Yeah.
22:22Well.
22:23She dropped it.
22:24She dropped the infinite set.
22:26And it's been crashing down forever.
22:30Man.
22:31It's a good thing I'm drunk or this wouldn't make any sense.
22:34Heh.
22:35I'm just kidding.
22:36I love, I love narrative uh, driven stories.
22:39But this is wild man.
22:40We've gone from like I said, nuclear, nuclear holocaust and corpses to witchcraft and possession.
22:46Uh, the room falls silent.
22:48There's nothing but the thinning crackle of the candle wax.
22:53How did you die Mr. Andrew?
22:56Hug myself.
22:57Couldn't take the guilt I guess.
22:59You thought you could?
23:01No.
23:02I suppose I didn't.
23:04Mel is taking it back.
23:06You knew that you wouldn't be able to take the guilt?
23:10I suppose some part of me did.
23:12Some quiet part of me.
23:14But the good old flag.
23:16Anyways, that's ancient history now.
23:19So am I.
23:20Ancient history, I've always hated that phrase.
23:23How come?
23:24How come?
23:25Oh, how come?
23:26I don't know.
23:27It's always so dismissive.
23:29But lots of ancient history matters.
23:31It matters so much we study it.
23:34We hold it up to the light.
23:35We take great pains to hold it up to the light.
23:41Mel is a dramatic little thing isn't she?
23:44Yeah.
23:45Oh, you think we should have met?
23:48You think we would have met if you weren't a ghost?
23:52Sorry?
23:54Just thinking.
23:55It's kind of interesting that this is one of the first few pleasant conversations I've had in a while.
24:04Yeah, we might have met.
24:06When I was a lot younger, there was this awful scone place, Autumn.
24:14And I used to go to.
24:15The scones were so crumbly and chalky.
24:18Oh yeah, scones.
24:19Okay, alright.
24:20And they had only two flavors.
24:22Oh, that sucks.
24:23Blue and none.
24:26Blue and no flavor?
24:28You mean blue bear?
24:30No, God.
24:31I don't think that stall keeper knew what a bear he was.
24:34It was just, you taste it and it was blue.
24:38Huh?
24:40Yeah, they were awful.
24:42I have no clue why Autumn liked them.
24:45I think she was messing with me.
24:46She always find a way to get rid of hers.
24:49I would kill.
24:51I would kill for one of those stupid scones right now.
24:54Oh, my God.
24:55Oh, my God.
24:57So much story.
25:02Let's get through it.
25:03What's Autumn's job?
25:04Oh, God.
25:05What was it?
25:06Listen.
25:08What was her job, Bella?
25:10She...
25:11She...
25:12Okay, okay.
25:13Do you remember the...
25:15Sick...
25:16Sicklin experiments?
25:18Remind me.
25:20That was...
25:21Where...
25:22That...
25:23There was...
25:24That awful disease going around Sicklin.
25:26The one that would, like, melt away at you.
25:30It was like leprosy.
25:31But a thousand times worse.
25:33It was so fast.
25:35Too.
25:36We already...
25:37We developed a curing time.
25:38But it was untested.
25:40Untested.
25:41We needed a live base to test it on.
25:45Autumn.
25:46Autumn would find kids.
25:48Oh, what a horrible...
25:50What a horrible person.
25:52She would take kids from...
25:54From the sick house and orphanages and factories.
25:57And she...
25:58Kids from families of 20.
26:00Kids with no families at all.
26:02Kids with gears.
26:04Gears for families.
26:06And she would test the vaccine on them.
26:08Bella falls south.
26:10So there.
26:11That was her job.
26:20So Autumn was different before the last...
26:21No, I mean...
26:23I think whatever's wrong with her now is always there.
26:27It always was.
26:28But yeah.
26:29I guess she's different in some strict sense.
26:31Like...
26:32She was no occultist, that's for sure.
26:35She had no parcel with witchcraft.
26:38And she...
26:39No.
26:40It isn't like she didn't have a goal.
26:41Like she was always the same kind of weird, but...
26:44She never used her weird for like...
26:46Evil?
26:48You think she...
26:50No.
26:51I don't think she's evil.
26:52I don't think like that.
26:54I think whatever purpose she's looked on to is evil.
26:57It's the wrong kind of purpose.
26:59It's like a parasite, I guess.
27:00Drinking off her energy.
27:03And the parasite is...
27:05Redemption.
27:06Or revenge.
27:07Or like...
27:08Purification.
27:18What happens to me?
27:19I'm sorry.
27:22Um...
27:23I don't think I wanna tell you.
27:26There's clearly something in it for you if Autumn dies.
27:29If Autumn doesn't die here, does my spirit just linger here forever?
27:35Um...
27:36It's not so bad, you know.
27:38We wouldn't be so different.
27:40Just spirits lingering around.
27:42Um...
27:43And if you shoot Autumn, I go to heaven or hell.
27:47Whatever.
27:49Mella quietly.
27:50Not hell.
27:52Maybe not hell.
27:54Okay.
27:56So basically...
27:57She's gonna kill Autumn while I'm in Autumn's body.
28:01I think.
28:06Alright.
28:07I'm sorry.
28:08I'm sorry.
28:09I'm sorry for bombing the city.
28:10It's okay.
28:11Not really, I mean.
28:12But it's...
28:14Not much...
28:15Not much sorry can do for now.
28:18Yeah.
28:19Um...
28:20I appreciate it though.
28:21And I'm sure you were just compelled to do so.
28:24Like Autumn.
28:25Like my mom.
28:26That's just the way it shapes out.
28:28Okay.
28:30I'm guessing.
28:31She's pretty much gonna kill me.
28:33Okay.
28:34No.
28:35Please, sir.
28:37You understand.
28:38She's manipulating you, right?
28:39She's...
28:40You're being manipulated.
28:42Look.
28:43Just...
28:44I'm sorry.
28:45But I'm sure someone else will summon you.
28:46You'll be free eventually.
28:48Just...
28:49I can't do it now.
28:50Please.
28:52If you ask her to shoot Autumn, you'll be free from your purpose as it goes.
28:56Your drive will be fulfilled.
28:58You'll go to whatever's waiting for you.
29:01But if you don't...
29:04If you ask her to spare Autumn, you'll linger here forever.
29:12Okay.
29:13Please do it.
29:14I instruct you to shoot me.
29:15What?
29:17I want you...
29:18I want you to exorcise me.
29:20I would like to be free.
29:22I don't know.
29:24Excuse me.
29:25I don't know if I can do it.
29:28You have to, Mella.
29:29You have to let me be free.
29:32You have to let Autumn be free, too.
29:34You have to purify her.
29:37Possessing...
29:38You possessing Autumn.
29:39Okay.
29:41I...
29:42We'll count down, okay?
29:46Five.
29:47Five.
29:48Four.
29:49Four.
29:50Four.
29:51Mella's eyes are completely shut.
29:53She's trembling.
29:54Two.
29:56One.
29:57She fires.
29:58Someone has written disarm the chalk in the street outside your apartment.
30:08The rain is washing it away.
30:11This is a mean-spirited game.
30:13It's a mean-spirited game of mine.
30:15It's a mean-spirited to the audience.
30:19And to its little characters.
30:21And to...
30:22Little Autumn and Mella.
30:24And to the man who just called...
30:26And the man who just called a bum and so on.
30:30It's a mean game.
30:31Maybe I'd say life is mean.
30:33But that this game is so true that it doesn't seem right.
30:35And as I return to the real world after some false revolution in the game world, I'm left to fester.
30:42And the contradictions of real life.
30:44A game that was just real life wouldn't be a game at all.
30:48It would just be another part of real life.
30:51I moved in third grade and those memories are almost obliterated.
30:56They're almost gone.
30:58One member is salmon concrete.
31:00And some idyllic image of a forest near my apartment.
31:06And a man strangely built a house.
31:09And so on.
31:10They're a friend I forgot to say bye to.
31:12They're a stove I forgot to turn off.
31:15Please leave the postcard.
31:17The memories are being obliterated.
31:20They're slipping away.
31:22The remaining memories are like ghosts in this game.
31:25They are drives towards purpose that no longer exists.
31:28I look for that friend everywhere you know.
31:30I still do.
31:32A few years ago.
31:33I campaigned for this awful political candidate.
31:36A really awful one.
31:37He was no good.
31:38I went door to door.
31:40That was fun.
31:41I got to peer briefly into people's homes.
31:43Walk around these dead rich suburban biospheres.
31:46They were indeed like biospheres.
31:49They were completely controlled environments.
31:51We were only intruders.
31:52We were like foreign parasites.
31:54We were like rifts in their mundane.
31:56An empty schoolyard where we first met the second floor of an apartment.
32:02These places are being obliterated too.
32:06Let me tell you about a bad habit that I have.
32:09I make everything, every story I write about the nuclear bomb.
32:12It is simply because the nuclear bomb has a high amount of symbolic potency.
32:19Why?
32:20The nuclear bomb has the weight of the world behind it.
32:23Disarm is being washed off the concrete.
32:25The rift is closing.
32:27Hard times my whole life.
32:28This game, including its music written for our souls.
32:29All right.
32:30For just another working class.
32:31Thanks.
32:32Aw.
32:33Thank you so much for playing my game.
32:34And to any ghost in the crowd, I'll tell you something only you can hear.
32:37Okay.
32:38So, yeah.
32:39That is Autumn in the City.
32:40And, uh, yeah.
32:41It's...
32:42You know what it reminds me of?
32:43Um, in high school and in college, um...
32:45Um, uh, my literature teacher would always have a...
32:50...to decide..
32:51Uh!
32:52It's free, right?
32:53It's free to read it.
32:54It's free.
32:55It's free.
32:56I'm fine.
32:57It's free to read it.
32:58It's free.
32:59It's free to read it.
33:00It's free to read it.
33:01And, uh...
33:02Yeah.
33:03It's...
33:04You know what it reminds me of?
33:06Um...
33:07In high school and college.
33:09Um...
33:10my literature teacher would always have us practice uh stream of consciousness writing
33:16where you just kind of like you go from one thought to another and uh and I get it it's
33:23almost it's it's I like how dreams operate my dreams at least I don't know about other people's
33:28but my dreams like start at a Kmart and then I'll be on a road trip with friends and then I'll be
33:35fishing with my grandpa I just I just go from place to place to place to place and that's kind
33:41of like how this story was um I mean for again for a free game you can't beat it thank you so much uh
33:49sir for uh sharing this game with me I hope you guys will check it out and like I said if you like
33:55it you know give the guy give the guy a buck or two you know show your thanks we need more
34:00uh creative developers like this um as much as I like fears to fathom and its imitators um you
34:08know if they're the imitators aren't creating something new they're aiding something that
34:13they know is going to be successful this totally went off on its own tangent and you know told a
34:19very uh unique story so uh you know like I said yeah great great game you know any any game where
34:28you walk away and you feel like your life has kind of changed a little bit because of that
34:34experience that's a good game you know if you if you play a game and you just want to get that bad
34:41taste out of your mouth and forget that you just wasted however many minutes of your life then you
34:46know obviously that's not a great game listen y'all thank you so much for watching I'm gonna put a link
34:51in the description for the game so y'all can go to uh itch uh itch.io itch.io and uh and download for
34:59yourself um but yeah if any other developers are watching and you'd like me to play something
35:05of yours just let me know in the comments and I will get to it first thing we're all in this
35:11together y'all all right take care guys bye
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