Not many tears are shed in “Carbon,” which world premiered last year in the New Directors strand at the San Sebastian Film Festival, but the movie’s absurd premise - which sees a young village slacker and his Afghan War veteran buddy sent on a wild-goose chase to determine the identity of a burnt corpse - nevertheless has a real human drama buried beneath the surface. “They just treat everything with a laugh.” “The Moldovan people, in the 30 years since their independence, they’ve gone through so much pain and so many political conflicts that at this point they don’t even pity themselves,” says Borş. It’s perhaps a natural reaction to an event whose tragic dimensions - more than 1,000 combatants and civilians are thought to have lost their lives - have largely diminished with the passage of time. As he spoke with other Moldovans about their memories of the independence years, however, he found their stories likewise laced with irony and self-deprecating humor, upending his plan to make a “classic drama” about that period - a heart-render “with a lot of crying, like ‘Titanic,’” as he describes it. The more times you download in the first week, the better our games will rank.“I thought my father was the exception,” admits the director, speaking to Variety at the Transilvania Film Festival, where his debut film, “Carbon,” a tragicomedy set against the backdrop of that decades-old dust-up, plays in competition. Don’t forget: our initial download rate determines our ranking on the App Store. We encourage you to tell your friends about it, and recommend the game on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other sites. We hope you enjoy playing An Odyssey: Echoes of War. Travel to the underworld-but make sure you can pay the ferryman, and tame the three-headed Cerberus!.Return to the loving embrace of your spouse and son who wait for you in Ithaca, or make a new home for yourself along the way.Face your personal demons and the actual monsters of ancient Greece: the Cyclops, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, and the Hydra!.Prove yourself to the gods and claim your place in the pantheon as a god yourself.Build your reputation and make sure you are remembered as a hero–or redefine the meaning of heroism itself.Make your way as a leader, a fighter, or rely on your notorious silver tongue as the protean hero of “The Odyssey.”.Lead your crew across the wine-dark sea, home to Ithaca-or fall prey to the many temptations along the way. Play as a female, male, or non-binary, cis or trans gay, straight, bi, aro and/or ace monogamous or polyamorous.And what songs will the poets sing of you-will they hail you as a hero?…Or a murderer? But Poseidon, god of the sea, has cursed your journey, and now, many trials stand between you and the loving embrace of your spouse and son: Polyphemus the Cyclops, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, the Land of the Lotus-Eaters…you and your companions will even journey to the land of the dead.Īnd what about the memories that haunt you: the ghosts of those that you slew on the fields of battle? Do you even want to return to your spouse and the burdens of rulership? What if you find love or peace somewhere along the way? Not all homes look the same. After ten long years, you, the crown sovereign of Ithaca, have set your sails for home. It’s entirely text-based-250,000 words, without graphics or sound effects-and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Will you live forever as a hero, a sovereign, or as a god?Īn Odyssey: Echoes of War is an interactive retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey by Natalia Theodoridou, where your choices control the story. We’re proud to announce that An Odyssey: Echoes of War, the latest in our popular “Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available for Steam, Android, and on iOS in the Choice of Games Omnibus app.įight the sea god’s wrath to reclaim your throne, and free yourself from the ghosts of war.
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