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The archives are vast and winding. Still, flipping through papers, facts resonate: a connection made, a person and place and time pulled into focus. You are separated by time and material but still yearn to tell your stories, to hold off the oblivion of history a little longer.

Finding Aid is a letter-writing game for two players trying to connect across the vast distances of history. A hack of Beyond Reach by Annie Johnston-Glick. Written for Correspondence Jam!

“History pledges to be faithful to the limits of fact, evidence, and archive, even as those dead certainties are produced by terror. I wanted to write a romance that exceeded the fictions of history—I longed to write a new story…”
– Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts”

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
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(2 total ratings)
Authordefinitelyfinch
Tagsepistolery, letters, Two Player

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Finding Aid 0.1.pdf 63 kB

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I really love the way this game explored the violence and disruption in archives - when I saw Saidiya Hartman invoked, I knew it would be good! I hope to play it with a friend someday.