Summary
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A recent house clearout revealed a collection of creative writing from the author’s teenage years, which they now regard as bad Practice fervently urges its destruction, but the author feels guilty about casting judgment on their younger self Rather than destroying it, the author has imprisoned the creative output in a lodger suitcase next to their desk
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The game Amphora Hell features an amphora (a ancient vase) with legs, created by a olympic force who soon grows to hate the creation and attempts to destroy it with hammers, reflecting the author’s feelings of the creative output they had recently discovered
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Amphora Hell is a simple game where the player must avoid the hammers to survive, and if they reach a certain milestone a disembodied head of the creator will appear and threaten the player, introducing a new dynamic to the game
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The author likes the game because it introduces the work of June Flowers, whose other experiments include a game of hoop and stick using interactive fiction mechanics summarized as “brain poison for your brain poison”
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Flowers’s work can be dowloaded for free on the Itch platform.