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A games and literature podcast all about stories, from London-based indie developers Weather Factory. Forgotten myths, fantastic sources, gothic tropes and ghoulish tales. All with a list of the games / texts we talk about at the bottom of the episode summary, so you can go away and play/read to your black heart's content.

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Twisty Little Passages All Alike

March 05, 2021 • Lottie Bevan & Alexis Kennedy • Season 2 • Episode 2

What's the connection between the Labyrinths of Night and the Bright Ditches? This question and many more we don't really answer in this episode on mazes, labyrinths and game design.

Meet labrys, the lesbianic double-headed axe. Leave kittens in mazes and form human chains in swampy MUDs. Learn Alexis Kennedy's First Law of Narrative. Cake. Also, Lottie gets cross about a pretend man 'buggering off with a sex witch and having a baby'. So there's that.

Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:

- Cultist Simulator, by us
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, by The Astronauts
- From Dusk Till Dawn, by Robert Rodriguez
- The Garden of Forking Paths, by Jorge Luis Borges
- Firewatch, by Campo Santo
- Dragon Age: Origins, by BioWare
- Fallen London, by Failbetter Games

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