Elegy for a Dead World: A Game That Turns You Into a Poet

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"Romance is not the sole province of dithering ladies in frilly dresses. It is passion. It is being swept away by the pursuit of an ideal. What is not to like about that?"

-Cassandra Pentaghast (Dragon Age: Inquisition)

Hey! Listen! Want to improve your writing skill? If you are like me, having (so much) difficulty to write things beautifully explained with proper grammar, perfected with good sense of humour here and there, I think this game that I found could help with that. 

The game is called Elegy for a Dead World, a game about writing your own narratives, stories, poems, or songs, based on what you encounter in the game. The goal of this game is so that everyone can write. 

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^{Shelley's world}

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In this game, you are to explore three worlds inspired by the works of three English Romantic poets; John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley in colourful graphics that offer different atmospheres to boost the player's inspirations and ideas on what narrative the player should write about the scenery they are seeing at the moment. Well that's promising, with those poets and all. 

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The gameplay is filling in the blank part to continue the already given sentence, as you can see above. It might looked like some children game on books or something. Well maybe it's because you're already good at writings. 

For me, take the gameplay picture above, eventhough I already know what's going on and who are "they" referred to, I don't think I could come up with something good from that sentence.
"I felt the frigid air and realized... It's cold."
Yep, 10/10. I should definitely ask a girl to go on a date with poetry.

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There are 27 writing challenges in which the player will have to write narratives about the world from different perspective, such as take the role of a thief who write a song about searching for valuables, or an archeologist who uncovering clues about a ruined city and writing about its final days. 

On your journey sometimes the game will reveal new informations halfway through the game that sheds new light which will need you to think harder to justify your already written story with the sudden change of direction. Once you are good enough with your writing, you could turn off the prompts to create your own narrative entirely from scratch. 

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After you complete your masterpiece, you can share it through Steam Workshop and see other players' original stories too or make it into digital or printed media.

The game was developed since 2013 as a collaboration between Dejobaan Games, a Boston based developer that are famous for their... Whatever it is they made called AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!, and Popcannibal, a game developer company accidentally started by Ziba Scott who is sometimes thinking whether he should add "Games" on the company name or not. Sounds promising enough for you?

Elegy for a Dead World is available on Steam for Windows, Mac, and Linux. 

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I'll be honest here I haven't play this game but from what I read it sounds like a pretty cool game and the "helping with writing" is mentioned a lot. So I think I'll give it a try to see if I could really improve my writings. Maybe I'll make a post about it here, if it's not too much of a disaster. 

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Images credit: Dejobaan Games