Missed Messages.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A romance/horror story about life, death, and memes. A shift in perspective can change everything.
What it feels like
Longing, intimacy, and emotional pull between the protagonist and the goth girlfriend anchors the experience. Pervasive wistful sadness finding quiet beauty in loss and the inevitability of death. Joy and sorrow felt at once, where connection carries the weight of mortality.
What it's about
Romantic love and connection with a goth girlfriend is central to the narrative. Death is explicitly part of the story's emotional core as indicated by 'life, death, & memes'. Psychological horror elements interweave with the romance, creating unsettling revelations.
How it plays
Branching conversation and communication choices drive interaction and story outcomes. Interaction is driven by clicking to accept or decline messages and making dialogue choices.
How it looks and sounds
The iPhone AirDrop and messaging interface exists within the fiction as the primary interaction. iPhone interface and text-based interaction strip the experience to essential communication.
How it's structured
Designed as a solo narrative experience with no multiplayer component. Central mechanic is accepting or declining AirDrop messages that fork the story into meaningfully different paths and outcomes. A bounded, authored story arc about a relationship with a beginning, middle, and definite end.
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