a Museum of Dubious Splendors
Studio Oleomingus · 2018 · Free to Play, Indie, Casual, Adventure, Walking Simulator
PC
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About a Museum of Dubious Splendors
The Museum of Dubious Splendors is half a storybook and half an exploration game.
It is a collection of folklore and oral tales, punctuated by peculiar rooms, that you wander through.
These tales, have been recreated from a collection of stories by Mir UmarHassan, a Gujarati poet whose works have proven notoriously difficult to translate because of the mellifluous use of Urdu and Hindi in his compositions.
The collection, entitled "in Dubious Splendor", was written (in Gujarati) in nineteen sixty two for the Malwa Chronicle, but the stories therein were mangled and edited without the author's permission prior to their publication in serialized form.
This contested collection of stories, became momentarily infamous as the subject of the first court case to arbitrate authorial ownership in Independent India.
Even today, despite countless restorative efforts by scholars, it cannot be said with with any certainty that the text that we used for this adaptation was the original as written by UmarHassan.
It is a collection of folklore and oral tales, punctuated by peculiar rooms, that you wander through.
These tales, have been recreated from a collection of stories by Mir UmarHassan, a Gujarati poet whose works have proven notoriously difficult to translate because of the mellifluous use of Urdu and Hindi in his compositions.
The collection, entitled "in Dubious Splendor", was written (in Gujarati) in nineteen sixty two for the Malwa Chronicle, but the stories therein were mangled and edited without the author's permission prior to their publication in serialized form.
This contested collection of stories, became momentarily infamous as the subject of the first court case to arbitrate authorial ownership in Independent India.
Even today, despite countless restorative efforts by scholars, it cannot be said with with any certainty that the text that we used for this adaptation was the original as written by UmarHassan.
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i walked in a boy. walked out a smart boy :steamhappy: nye nye nye nye nye1 found this helpful
One of those boring types of games that should have just been made into a video. There's no real game here1 found this helpful
It was a good meditative experience
Игра «A Museum of Dubious Splendors» — это мрачная, атмосферная одноразовая история, погружающая в мир абстрактного искусства и философских вопросов. Исследование музея с необычными экспонатами, каждый из которых открывает фрагмент сюжета, наполненного метафорами и парадоксами. Геймплей прост, но захватывающий: выбор действий влияет на развитие событий, а тексты, написанные в стиле эссе, заставляют задуматься о смысле жизни. Визуально — минималистичный арт, который дополняет тему. Игра не для массы, но тем, кто ценит глубину и нестандартные решения, она подарит незабываемые впечатления.
This game is great because not only is it from India and gives you a bit of context from there, it's also fairly funny. Worth the download.
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