Swiss Games
Garden

2019

Im Ämmital (Es bärndütsches Gschichtli)

This tiny interactive fiction project has been created as part of the Global Game Jam 2019 with its theme "What Home Means to You". The gently rolling hills of the Emmental – where I grew up – are the home a quite a surprising number of evangelical sects and other obscure cults that mostly keep to themselves and rarely mingle with the people from the larger villages. It seemed to me like the right place to tell a story inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. The story is told in the local dialect ("Bärndütsch" – Bernese German), which is a nod to Franz Hohler's "Es bärndütsches Gschichtli", in which the author and comedian tells a ghost story that contains mostly made-up, but bernese-german-sounding words.
    Im Ämmital (Es bärndütsches Gschichtli)

    Information

    Location

    Zürich

    Canton

    Zürich

    Release

    • 2019 · Browser

    Languages

    Swiss German, English

    Full Credits

    Kaspar Manz: Writing, David Stark: Illustrations and English Translation, Rae Knowler: Additional Photography

    Data Quality

    56%

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