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Release Date 26 August 2023
Release Type Freeware
Content Advisory None | None | None
Operating System Windows
Setting Contemporary
Genre Drama
Story Original
Play Length Short Game (can be completed within 30 minutes)
MAGS
Voice Acting
Graphics 320x200, 32-Bit Colour
Downloaded 110 All Time

About

This project that was made for the August 2023 AGS MAGS competition. This month's theme is distance. You are a night shift worker who has just moved into a new apartment building. While getting ready for work, you hear your neighbor having a terrible coughing fit.

Assets used:

Duat Font One | Pixel Art 8 Bits Font | Free by LeonMSaia (itch.io)


(Modern Office, Modern Interiors, Modern Exteriors) LimeZu - itch.io


SFX:


https://freesound.org/people/Kostrava/sounds/274346/https://freesound.org/people/caquet/sounds/188478/
Freesound - "Object_Drawer_Wood_Open.wav" by Nox_Sound


Freesound - "Shower Turn On Run Turn Off Drain Water.wav" by WavJunction.com


Freesound - "Notification" by suyashjemar


Music: (From Soundimage.org - Eric Matyas)Northern
Passagesoundimage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Northern-
Passage.mp3


Book End


https://soundimage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Book-End.mp3


Voice Actors:
Erika Sanderson (@ErikaSanderson)
Courtney Ede (@Courtney_Ede_VA)


Durinde
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Awards & Reviews

Image by 4KbShort

AGS Awards 2023 Nominee

AGS Awards 2023 Nominee

Best Short Game

AGS Panel Rating

Fully voiced, well-written and moving story about social distance and reaching out. Or not.

Other Players Rated


7 votes

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By cat on 13 February 2024

This game focuses more on story than on puzzles which require a fair amount of walking back and forth. Worth playing for both endings. I was surprised that a MAGS game has good voice acting.


By Cassiebsg on 9 September 2023

Good strong story. Which made me feel a bit god about getting ending 2... and guilty when got ending 1.
Worth playing for both endings, to see how a simple life choice can touch someone else's life.


By heltenjon on 27 August 2023

This is a slice-of-life game that handles inventory items the most realistically of all games I have played. There is a short, but moving story, no real puzzles, but choices to make.


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