Beckoning Woods

Beckoning woods is a small interactive short story about a transformative and emotional journey into the forest. Throughout various cultures forests have been heavily linked with magic and surrealism. The enchanted forest is often used as a motif in fantasy to represent the journey into the unknown, but contrastingly also represents familiar intimacy. It embodies our fears and an endless plunge into darkness, into a labyrinth. Yet in its immensity, one can find comfort, unlike vast planes, the space is enclosed, thus covering the individual, sheltering them. The forest is the warm embrace, it is the womb, cocoon. This game wanted to explore the experience of crying, and emotional release but reframing it through the lens of the journey through the forest. The forest lures the reader into it, then acts as both a place of horror and comfort.