Songs for Giants

**This work was featured in the Console-ing Passions 2022 Arcade!** 

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About

SONGS FOR GIANTS is a short, interactive essay built in Twine, Bitsy, and Glitch that offers reflections and prompts on lyric games—a genre of analog games that, as Torner (2020) writes, are more “incitements” than playable systems. This essay weaves together personal anecdotes, myth, minigames, and scholarship to paint an opaque portrait of the analog microgame scene.

2023 Update!

This essay received minor updates in winter of 2023, namely because of the publication of Jordan Magnusson's book Game Poems! Minor graphical updates, additional music/sounds, and typo fixes have also been added.