The Short Game

59: Porpentine: Eczema Angel Orifice

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Porpentine Charity Heartscape is one of the most fascinating figures in interactive fiction. This week we discuss her collected Twine works, released as a nicely packaged collection entitled Eczema Angel Orifice, released in June of 2015. Porpentine’s work is in turns hilarious, insightful, heartbreaking, sexy, unsettling, and beautiful. We discuss some of her more well known works and touch briefly on some of the deep cuts included in the collection.

ECZEMA ANGEL ORIFICE is available from the author’s website or through itch.io. It contains 25 stories, each of which may take between an hour and 5 minutes to experience.

Links for this episode:

  • The Short Game | 31: Interactive Fiction
  • NYTimes – Twine, the Video-Game Technology for All
  • Interview with Porpentine, author of howling dogs | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling
  • Eczema Angel Orifice (Porpentine) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling
  • IF Comp 2012: howling dogs (Porpentine) | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling
  • Steam Greenlight :: Eczema Angel Orifice
  • PORPENTINE
  • ECZEMA ANGEL ORIFICE
  • CRY$TAL WARRIOR KE$HA
  • Meet Me in the Moon Room: Stories: Ray Vukcevich
  • Gamasutra – IGF winner Hofmeier pays it forward for Porpentine’s Howling Dogs
  • Escape Velocity (video game) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Race The Sun on the App Store
  • Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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