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Hecate‘s Crossroads— Twine Games for Females based on real stories
“I come, a virgin of varied forms, wandering through the heavens, bull-faced, three-headed, ruthless, with golden arrows; chaste Phoebe bringing light to mortals, Eileithyia; bearing the three synthemata [sacred signs] of a triple nature. In the Aether I appear in fiery forms and in the air, sit in a silver chariot.(Chaldean Oracles)
Like the triple goddess of Hecate's, this project of interactive fiction provides a pace for one to make choices. One can step into the shoes of each fictional or non-fictional female figure, tosee their past, their present and their future. So that one can make a more informed choicewhen one comes to one's own.
I wish we, everyone of us, regardless of any gender roles, can fiercely chase after one's envisioned life, like the Greek goddess of Hecate.
Our Games
Project 2
Feminine Mystique
​1963 is a time of post-WWII prosperity, and also a time when females giving up job positions to make room for male war veterans. Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, as the best sell of the time, voiced out the “the problem buried, unspoke, for many years in the minds of American women.” After being a major workforce in war, and aftr many years of education, are women’s greatest fulfillment still returning to home, doing housework and taking care of children? See it into the details of the fiction, and make choices for your own.
Project 3
Yuliang
Born as an orphan in the turbulent time of 20th century China, Yuliang Pan has survived her teenage years serving in a brothel and later becoming a concubine. But her curiosity to learn has led her to break the social constraints. Pursuing her passion in art, she traveled and learned to paint. Her crossroads are wide and different, and you are welcome to make choices in her world.
Project 4
Eileen Chang
What troubles can a talented woman born into a prominent family have? Will she have a smooth life? Zhang Ailing, a famous Chinese female writer of the 20th century, is such a woman, but her life is entwined with domestic violence, displacement and failed love. If you were Eileen Chang, how would you choose?