The closest I have come to having any interest in sport is when I got really into reading about football hooligans, or like, Blood Bowl, but I do absolutely recognise the romance of it all.
SUDDEN DEATH is a delicious free slice of playable art-pie that celebrates that romance. It is - says dev Cécile, who co-made the project with Nat Pussy and MOTHER GOOSE for collective Domino Club - “a game about love and sports.
it's gay, it's very australian, and it's great.” You can tell it’s Australian quickly, because people call chips ‘chippies’, which makes me chuffed.
It’s interactive fiction, but uses mixed media to tell its tale of love, drugs, and footy, jumping between authorial prose, conversations, online news articles, comment sections, and text messages.
It sometimes feels like being allowed a look at an evidence file of snapshots leading up to the terrible event you suspect might be coming.