WHALESONG
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Starwhales birthed the universe as we know it.
When a starwhale dies their body disintegrates, leaving behind a hot, dense heartstone that drops through the atmosphere and settles at the core of the gas planet that the whale called home. If left untended there, the heartstones of dead whales ignite the planet’s core and create new stars.
All stars are the products of dead starwhales.
Legend has it that if the heartstone of a dead starwhale is retrieved and returned to the upper atmosphere, it will summon the whale back from beyond death.
WHALESONG is a game for two players that takes the form of a back-and-forth conversation narrating a starwhale’s dive through the five layers of the gas giant, while interrogating a lost relationship. One of you will be the Starwhale, . The other will be the gas planet the whale calls home.
Over the course of WHALESONG you will learn to love, and grieve, and to allow yourself to move on.
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Played this game today with my partner and we had a lot of fun with the combination of whimsy (starwhales!) and depth of premise (it is a story about grief after all). We told the story of Clive the starwhale, seeking the heartstone of his ride or die and partner in crime, Waver, after being inspired by an outburst of life on a moon orbiting their gas giant, signaling that maybe Waver wasn't completely gone. The story format is easy to follow and was nicely wrapped up in about 90min for us. Thanks for the fun experience!