So this is one of the things I’ve been working on recently! The Book Ritual is a story told using a physical book, in the real world. The player is given writing and drawing tasks that get them to interact with the book in different ways. They write in it, draw maps, and tell it about their thoughts and feelings.
The player also needs to tear out pages, and shred them, to progress.
It’s very much more of an interactive art piece than a game in the traditional sense, and talks about ideas of accepting loss and change.
Having worked with physical games and props for so long I’ve felt that the emotional weight we apply to physical objects is ripe for exploration. People don’t want to shred books. Why is that?
