Hyacinth Nil explores morality systems at the end of the world

Indie game dev and co-found of Abyssal Uncreations, Hyacinth Nil (they/them) makes games about cosmic horror, broken technology, and how the internet manufactures identity. They took some time to walk me through their early efforts of longform LARPs as a kid, looking back on Transfer (Abyssal Uncreations, 2017), and the ways systematized morality reveals the empty politics of many games.

You can follow Hyacinth on Twitter @Synodai, play their games on itch, and catch their streams on Twitch.

Hyacinth’s Good Thing to Share
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Link Zone
Transfer
The Tower (Hyacinth Nil, 20??)
Silent Hill 3 (Konami, 2003)
Killing Time at Lightspeed (Gritfish, 2016)
No Higher Court: Towards a Methodology for Designing Alternative Morality Systems in Games

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