In the Pause Between the Ringing
Studio Oleomingus · 2019 · Free to Play, Casual, Indie, Adventure
PC
Very Positive83% · 132
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About In the Pause Between the Ringing
In the Pause Between the Ringing is a short story from the world of Somewhere.
The story of an inventor called Iqbal and of the first telephone mines in India.
In a country stitched with telephone wires, it is not surprising to discover that a history of the telephone was first written in a book of Geology. The telephone is after all a noticeable fixture of the Indian landscape. And it's sonorous ringing has long heralded sudden and momentous changes in the minute destinies of its people.
The instrument can be found, amplifying the terrifying horns of Babur's army from the ragged edge of Chenab. Or clattering with the shouts of Chalukya craftsmen, that once echoed along the Badami temples.
It is even heard across time, like the chiseling of Ashoka's inscriptions that would manifest as an unresolved ringing in the inner ear of James Prinsep. Or when William Brooke O'Shaughnessy believed that, much like cholera riddled veins, these telegraph cables would let him pump restoratives straight into the heart of a troubled nation.
In this country of telephones and wires, phone directories become genealogies, telephone exchanges become places of pilgrimage and the ringing, clicking drone of its machinery - a metronome of the sporadic history of this land.
Our story is told amidst this tangle of cables and time. It is told when Iqubal awaits a telephone call and his perpetual pause forces a recollection of the terrifying history of the telephone in India.
The story of an inventor called Iqbal and of the first telephone mines in India.
In a country stitched with telephone wires, it is not surprising to discover that a history of the telephone was first written in a book of Geology. The telephone is after all a noticeable fixture of the Indian landscape. And it's sonorous ringing has long heralded sudden and momentous changes in the minute destinies of its people.
The instrument can be found, amplifying the terrifying horns of Babur's army from the ragged edge of Chenab. Or clattering with the shouts of Chalukya craftsmen, that once echoed along the Badami temples.
It is even heard across time, like the chiseling of Ashoka's inscriptions that would manifest as an unresolved ringing in the inner ear of James Prinsep. Or when William Brooke O'Shaughnessy believed that, much like cholera riddled veins, these telegraph cables would let him pump restoratives straight into the heart of a troubled nation.
In this country of telephones and wires, phone directories become genealogies, telephone exchanges become places of pilgrimage and the ringing, clicking drone of its machinery - a metronome of the sporadic history of this land.
Our story is told amidst this tangle of cables and time. It is told when Iqubal awaits a telephone call and his perpetual pause forces a recollection of the terrifying history of the telephone in India.
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In the Pause Between the Ringing is a short experimental adventure that approaches interactive storytelling from an artistic and literary perspective rather than following the familiar structure of a conventional video game. Developed and published by Studio Oleomingus, the project belongs to the studio’s wider Somewhere universe, a collection of unusual interactive works concerned with architecture, history, memory, fiction, and the complicated relationship between places and the people who inhabit them. Instead of offering combat, elaborate puzzles, character progression, or other traditional systems, this game invites the player to explore an imaginative interpretation of telecommunications and Indian history. The result feels closer to walking through an interactive piece of magical-realist literature than completing a typical adventure game. The story revolves around an inventor named Iqbal and the peculiar idea of India’s first telephone mines. Iqbal is waiting for a telephone call, but this seemingly ordinary situation becomes the foundation for an increasingly strange journey through the history and mythology surrounding communication technology. The telephone is transform…
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I would recommend it for sure if you like Annapurna Interactive games. Colorful and cinematic, and not a long game either. More of a museum exhibit I guess?
Fun little interactive art installment.
Игра In the Pause Between the Ringing — это короткая, но глубокая психоделическая прогулка по искажённой памяти. Сюрреалистичные визуальные образы и давящий саундтрек создают неповторимую атмосферу тревоги и ностальгии. Это интерактивная поэма о потере и принятии, которая надолго остаётся в мыслях после финальных титров.
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