A Bar Where Men Go To Be Turned Into Horses
5 men. 5 shots. 5 bitter milliliters. 10 minutes until transformation.
Heads up, this game is played in real time. The game will wrap up as the timer reaches zero. I really encourage you to play at your own pace and get what you get, but if you're desperate to experience the whole story, you can press '0' to pause/unpause the timer (which you should do before the clock hits 30 seconds, if you want to see it all).
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beautiful game with a very funny ending <3
party rockers in the house tonight
what an absurd, delightful little creation. thank you!
thank you for playing!! i love your work :)
ah! you are entirely too sweet <3
anyone else get the error message :'(
What a great premise and payoff. And just the storytelling structure is so fun and good! I love a set time for the story that I also get to set my own pace to. Actually, I didn't realize it was in real time the first playthrough, so I ended up clicking through most of the dialogue fast enough the second time that I got to the God intervention. Ha!
Also, have you read "Horse" by Amy Bonnaffons? (I guess that's the story of the bar where girls get turned into horses.)
i have not!!!!!! i will do so ASAP thats fucking awesome. thank you for playing!!!
I read it!!! holy shit!!!! amazing!!!! i can aspire to write something that incredible someday.
Hahaha I'm so glad you liked it! And I'd argue you've got a few legs up on Amy already. Keep making cool games and I'll keep reading/playing them!
aaargh that means so much :) i have a tendency to undervalue my stuff for its tendency towards silliness, but i do love what i make. i'm in a biiiig writerly mood lately so I hope you'll enjoy the next few things I have in the pipeline!! When I have time to work on them again!!
party rockers in the house tonight!
had to play twice to get stranger's story lol
Party rockers in the house tonight xo)
This game was genuinely amazing, the writing was really good.
I love your silly games although it wasn't as silly as expected, good job!
Take care brother.
Thank you so much for the kind words <3
I genuinely loved playing this game, short in itself, but really interesting, the stories are really well made and I love how real it made it feel in the first play, with the time flying by and you just trying to get a grasp on the story of each character. Not having a significant gameplay still made this game way too enjoyable, thanks for the game!
I was very positively surprised by how much I loved this game. The baffling premise and lack of initial explaination left me afraid this would only be a loose bag of non-sequiturs, but instead I found a story whose wild premise catches the player's attention to draw them into a world with very human tales, only highlit by the strangeness of the setting and jokes.
The Workie and Stranger draw more obvious and tangible parallels to real life, but the more fantastic and diegetic reasonings of the others are both fun to read and make the world feel more genuine, building nicely into the theme of people from different walks of life meeting by chance. I cracked up at the stranger, at a loss for words, trying to express themself with a meme, only for nobody to know what they were talking about.
It's rare to see a writer so aptly capture such different backgrounds, lived experiences, and perspectives without flanderizing or demonizing any of them, and even rarer to see it done with a central queer character in a straight crowd. I can't help admitting I'm biased to them, if only because they're who I relate to most.
It feels a bit silly to talk so seriously about the game after that ending, but I loved that part too. It was funny and ironic without being disingenuous about the strange earnestness before, and I found myself laughing at the gambler with a tinge of melancholy for my beloved stranger.
TL;DR- dunno what to say, it's weird and silly and I really liked it.
is one of the most thoughtful comments I've ever received, thank you so so SO much!💜
I wanted to show a whole smorgasbord of dysfunctional masculinities, and I'm really proud especially of some of the subtler ways that the characters suck, like the Wagie clearly looking to the Gambler for approval constantly because he's the most Big Boy Alpha in the room.
I really love hearing about people's favourite character! Somehow they're all good. Will I ever pull that off again??? Hopefully! The stranger is such a like, if you're the right kind of person it's going to shoot straight into your soul, which makes sense, coz they're comprised at least partly of mine (although not quite autobiographical as some folks have assumed lmao). Personally, I just can't get over my beloved cowboy as like basically a flawless beautiful kind humble fellow who is also maybe the biggest freak of them all, but in a way that's so ridiculous it's hard to take seriously.
Thank you again so much for playing and sharing such beautiful thoughts :) i'm gonna keep telling weird stories about weird people and I hope you enjoy them! (Perhaps chuck me a follow? :3) I think you might like City of Piss a lot too, by the by!
Aw I really loved this :-) I liked getting to know each person's story, and the Cowboy singing at the end was hilarious
honestly one of my most inspired last-minute choices hahahaha. people were finishing the story too quick and I was like uhhhh how do I kill time? bro country, of course!
ending got me good, well played
Thank you so much for checking it out :)
I played it twice, very good stories from the cool individuals :D The reasonings me laugh!
"party rockers <3"
Woo hoo Party Rockers in the house toniiiight!!
Thank you though this was an amazing experience.
music is so good. Story- even better. 10/10 would recommend.
Party rockers in the house tonightAwesome work, the writing was really well done :)
(party horsies in the house tonight)
Party rockers in the stable tonight
PARTY ROCKERS IN THE HOUSE
can you believe that they're writing test comments in this day and age?te