After the lecture from Jordan I was inspired to try and make my own game poem. I decided to use twine, a text based open software used for making no-linear interactive text games.

I based the game off of how I describe the feeling of anxiety, like a tiger is constantly following me. To make links to to the different sections of the game you put the word you want to be a button in brackets like [[this]]. That would then make it clickable and you can start editing the next sections. As seen in the screenshot below the different sections and how they connect.

I wanted to make something personal but it also could be relatable for others. The game starts with you leaving your house to go to work with the tiger following you, if the player chooses to confront the tiger the game reaches a dead end. They must go the day then when they are back home the tiger attacks, they then start the next day, it is an endless loop.

https://scarlett-tiana-games.itch.io/the-tiger

The link to play the game ^

This was a good exercise as it allowed me to explore a different software and to try making something more personal.