Chinese Family Dinner Moment is a Glulx interactive fiction story written with Inform 7 and is © 2023 by Kastel. It was an entry in the Single Choice Jam. It also placed 30th in the Best in Show category of The IF Short Games Showcase 2023.
In this short personal drama with extremely-limited agency, you play as an unwilling attendee at a family reunion. They don't know who you are now. But you can't leave. All you can do is listen.
Content warnings: explicit sexual harassment, racism, and transphobia.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the story.
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Imperial Grand Restaurant
> cw. (for content warnings)
> x me. i.
> x man —or— x woman. (You won't be nosy.)
> x sea cucumbers. (yuck)
> x duck. (You're vegan now.)
> x abalone. (don't miss it)
> u. (no, you must not leave)
> smell.
> talk to woman —or— talk to man. (You won't.)
The only way to advance the story is to listen. And there's little else you can do instead.
> listen. g. (Auntie Ling chats.)
> listen. g. g. (Uncle Qiang touches and chats.)
You check social media on your phone.
>> SPACE
Internet Hell
> listen. g. g. g. g.
>> SPACE
Your Little Corner
> z.
> listen. g. g. g. g.
>> SPACE
Family Photograph
> listen.
>> SPACE
The game ends; the interpreter closes.
There are no credits in the game itself, but its IFDB page gives a photo credit to Cera.
The response to INVENTORY is:
You are too poor to possess anything of note.
However, at one point, you check social media on your phone, so logically, you must have that even if you can never refer to it.
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