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Dwelling

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Description

Dwelling is a role-playing game and short story for one.

Taking on the role of the embodied narrator you will wander through your new strange home at night. Conjuring spectres and finding they summon parts of your past along with them. Read, write, and draw in this curated solitary experience of a sleepless night in a haunted house.

As you navigate the house at night you find yourself stumbling into strange occurrences in each room, strange spectres summoned before your eyes. Spectres that slink, stretch, drip and ooze. Draw, sketch, or collage your spectres into being.

With each spectre comes something else dredged up with them. Your mind swirls as you get lost in remembering a time you've felt like this before. Each memory comes up in small pieces, as you are lost wondering where were you? What happened? What was left after that moment?

As the memory slips away, so does your spectre, leaving you alone, once again, in an empty room in the middle of the night. Though something is different, something has changed, something about this encounter has left a mark on you.

The night is long and the house is strange, find yourself and find your ghosts in the pages of Dwelling.

Description

Dwelling is a role-playing game and short story for one.

Taking on the role of the embodied narrator you will wander through your new strange home at night. Conjuring spectres and finding they summon parts of your past along with them. Read, write, and draw in this curated solitary experience of a sleepless night in a haunted house.

As you navigate the house at night you find yourself stumbling into strange occurrences in each room, strange spectres summoned before your eyes. Spectres that slink, stretch, drip and ooze. Draw, sketch, or collage your spectres into being.

With each spectre comes something else dredged up with them. Your mind swirls as you get lost in remembering a time you've felt like this before. Each memory comes up in small pieces, as you are lost wondering where were you? What happened? What was left after that moment?

As the memory slips away, so does your spectre, leaving you alone, once again, in an empty room in the middle of the night. Though something is different, something has changed, something about this encounter has left a mark on you.

The night is long and the house is strange, find yourself and find your ghosts in the pages of Dwelling.

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Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 0 · neu 1 · neg 0
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Video ub38X82ReHs Tim Chuon Top 10 List at 18:21 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • engaging engine-building decisions
  • fun interaction around resources and dice manipulation
Cons
  • the speaker notes a tendency to focus on non-scoring actions
Thematic elements
  • engine-building and die manipulation
  • fantasy/dwellings management with dwarves
  • abstract engine-building with thematic flavor
Comparison games
  • Oorn
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • calculation — card that manipulates the die to influence outcomes
  • Engine Building — use gold and other resources to fuel engine effects
  • engine_building — use gold and other resources to fuel engine effects
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • objectively the greatest game of all time
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Video iqXIc2ljEyE Tim Chuon Discussion at 6:29
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Pros
none
Cons
  • copy is pretty beat up
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Probably the most complex game I have in my collection, which is Lisboa.
  • Wild Garden, super fun, but the group I played it with just took so long in their turn so I'm like, I need a break from this game for a second.
  • Thunder Road: Vendetta continues to be a game that I introduce to brand new players and people just have so much fun with this game.
  • I played and I love this game.
  • this was so much fun.
  • This game slaps.
  • It feels like a 2D arcade scrolling game and we're looking for it.
  • I've had so much fun with Street Fighter and I've always kept it around because I just love the miniatures
  • This is a really fun building game.
  • This plays so different from other Lacerda games of course, because it's way easier.
  • I just think the style overall just feels a lot more like flowy, a lot more straightforward than his other games
  • Snow Planner, really love this game.
  • Thank you to Leder Games for sending this one over. Of course, I cannot wait to play this.
  • With that in mind, the final count is 160 games.
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Video iqXIc2ljEyE Tim Chuon Discussion at 9:52 sentiment: neutral
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Neutral
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Probably the most complex game I have in my collection, which is Lisboa.
  • Wild Garden, super fun, but the group I played it with just took so long in their turn so I'm like, I need a break from this game for a second.
  • Thunder Road: Vendetta continues to be a game that I introduce to brand new players and people just have so much fun with this game.
  • I played and I love this game.
  • this was so much fun.
  • This game slaps.
  • It feels like a 2D arcade scrolling game and we're looking for it.
  • I've had so much fun with Street Fighter and I've always kept it around because I just love the miniatures
  • This is a really fun building game.
  • This plays so different from other Lacerda games of course, because it's way easier.
  • I just think the style overall just feels a lot more like flowy, a lot more straightforward than his other games
  • Snow Planner, really love this game.
  • Thank you to Leder Games for sending this one over. Of course, I cannot wait to play this.
  • With that in mind, the final count is 160 games.
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