Frayed Ends – singingstranger

A visual novel about knitting and the people you meet. No knitting skills required.

Download the game:

Itch.io: https://singingstranger.itch.io/frayed-ends

What is it about?

You knit in public. People see you doing so. They get curious so they want to talk to you.

Frayed Ends - meeting the punk — “A young person sits down across from you and watches you work.”

Your conversation starts about knitting.

Frayed Ends - meeting the old lady — Senior: “Excuse me honey, what are you knitting there?”

But then you get to decide where the conversation goes.

Frayed Ends - You choose where the conversation goes — User choice: Say “It’s fun.” or “It’s boring.”

And now it’s up to you to navigate the conversation.

You can learn about the people’s past,

Hijabi: “Yeah, my dad for example, he had to work for my grandpa back in his home country because they were in an isolated village.”

Hijabi: “But when they got a bus he could go to university in the city. And later he moved here and married, had kids…”

You can learn about their thoughts on contemporary issues,

Frayed Ends - meeting the business person — Business Person: “If I am honest with you, the worst is that I have had plenty of relationships fail because I am a career driven person.”

And you can also just spend some time together and get a glimpse of another person’s life.

Frayed Ends - meeting the blind person — Blind Person: “I suppose we’ll be keeping each other company then.”

How was it made?

Using the amazing game engine Ren.Py I made this video game for a university project. This is my first proper, full game and it was made as a challenge to create a finished product within one and a half months.

I will continue to work on it and edit it further. But this is the state that it is being exhibited in at Game Zone in Stuttgart, Germany from 30. April – 05. May 2019.