Im Ämmital (Es bärndütsches Gschichtli)

This tiny interactive fiction project has been created as part of the Global Game Jam 2019 with its theme "What Home Means to You". The gently rolling hills of the Emmental – where I grew up – are the home a quite a surprising number of evangelical sects and other obscure cults that mostly keep to themselves and rarely mingle with the people from the larger villages. It seemed to me like the right place to tell a story inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. The story is told in the local dialect ("Bärndütsch" – Bernese German), which is a nod to Franz Hohler's "Es bärndütsches Gschichtli", in which the author and comedian tells a ghost story that contains mostly made-up, but bernese-german-sounding words.