Thrall
The dream is of a love that is all-consuming, that reaches into your skull and brushes through your neurons to show you the holy way.
Interactive story about vampires made for the Gaming Like It’s 1929 and Shufflecomp 2024/2025 game jams with Twine/Snowman in two weeks. Around 5000 words. Two endings.
Uses several artworks that were released into the public domain in 2025, and an excerpt of music from a 1929 film. All of the visual and audio assets are public domain. The source code is open source on Github here and released under an MIT license.
Game contains audio. Can be disabled by muting the tab.
Link to fullscreen version. Mobile users can use this link, but the game is not completely mobile compatible, so some features will be broken.
Link to Interactive Fiction Database entry.
Please don't hesitate to give negative feedback.
Changelog:
- v2.0.0 (Feb 10, 2025): Changed music. Changed CSS for mobile compatibility.
- v1.0.1 (Jan 30, 2025): Added settings menu.
- v1.0.0 (Jan 25, 2025): Initial release.
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Install instructions
Open index.html in a web browser.
Comments
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Great game! I enjoyed what it made me think about with regards to altering ourselves beyond recognition through the actions of others.
this is really cool! I love how immersive it is and the way the backstory unfolds. The combination of the character's emotion with the decaying digital setting works really well.
at some points the music was totally bringing me into the story, and at other points it was distracting. I would have preferred it all to be more ambient/less active. the transitions between songs were also a bit jarring in their frequency but maybe I just read quickly
Thanks for telling me about the music. You were right, so I went back and changed a lot of the songs to something more downtempo.
Love it--the tangled, uncertain memories; the undying obsession... Feels like it could also fit into the ongoing Queer Vampire Jam!
Thank you. I'll submit it there, I guess, since it does fit the concept.
Nicely done. I muted the sounds, tbh but listened to each transition for a moment. It's a decisive interpretation of life as a vampire. The only change I would suggest is to remove the scrolling text at the bottom of the frame or at least allow it to be stopped or slowed.
Other than that, it is a great short story!
Thanks for the feedback. Just added a settings menu where you can change the speed of the scrolling text as well as the font size. Having other people look at the game helps with this kind of thing.
I loved it! The aesthetics fit the story very well and i like the narrator's writing quite a lot.
Loved the discordant theme of the music and how it tied in with the narrator's desperation. Very intriguing!