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- Have You Played… Ritual Of The Moon? - 23 December 2020
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Ritual Of The Moon is an unusual game. Similar to The Longing , it has a real time element to it, although with Ritual Of The Moon it is more specific. You see, the Ritual Of The Moon has to be played once a day, every day, for 28 days, in order to complete it. Oh ho ho, you can see where this is going. (more…)
- Have You Played… Ritual Of The Moon? - 23 December 2020
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Ritual Of The Moon is an unusual game. Similar to The Longing , it has a real time element to it, although with Ritual Of The Moon it is more specific. You see, the Ritual Of The Moon has to be played once a day, every day, for 28 days, in order to complete it. Oh ho ho, you can see where this is going. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 28, the end - 4 June 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 27 of my diary . So this, today, is the last day of the Moon Diary. Tomorrow I shall wake up and not have to write about Marty Burnham. I was relieved before I played, and now I am just quite sad. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 27 - 3 June 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 27 of my diary . Something happened today! I accidentally crashed the meteor into the moon! I didn’t mean to, I just steered it down instead of up, and then I realised it was getting bigger, and it hit the moon! When I looked at the chart it showed a drop. What does it mean? (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: days 24 and 25 - 31 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is days 24 and 25 of my diary . I missed another day again, because I was out of the office yesterday. At this point I’m wondering what the earth even looks like. Should one even bother to continue to save it? It’s probably become a Mad Maxian hellscape over just three weeks. The Tory leadership contest has shifted to a big bottom-bashing contest in a pit dug out of the House Of Commons. It’s been fully Armageddoned several times over. Aerosmith tried to screech out I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing but got totally steamrollered. Brown bread, mate. Brown bread with extra yeast. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary day 22 - 28 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 22 of my diary . The Moon Ritual is still a bit out of sync. I have a week left, still, and missed another meteor at the weekend. The world is looking a bit Swiss cheesey. I’m struggling to find something to think about today because I just rushed through it, in business, because I have something else I need to do. Ack, ack. I have no pithy wisdom darts to throw in your eye and, really, Marty Burnham The Moon Witch didn’t have any for me. I think I’ve seen her thoughts today before. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 20 - 24 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 20 of my diary . Today is a day late because I was a) busy yesterday and b) the playthrough ended up being a pretty good cliffhanger for the weekend. It seems that the extremely long timeline over which I’ve ended up playing this may have interrupted the natural flow of the game. Here, after over a month (but which should have been three weeks), we see that Marty Burnham is considering what we may call her ultimate choice. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 19 - 22 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 19 of my diary . Look, I’m very busy again today. I’m back from being on holiday and nothing is finished, and I have to stay late tonight for unrelated reasons anyway. I don’t understand those people who are like, “Oh I made a lemon drizzle cake when I got home, because I had a spare hour.” HOW? And, when you have a spare hour, how do you stop yourself from lying on your bed watching a TV show you have already seen? Luckily Marty Burnham The Moon Witch has nothing but time, so I used the visit today for an extremely quick bit of attempted meditation. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 18 - 21 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 18 of my diary . Alright, yesterday was depressing and made some of you sad (buddy, if you think reproductive healthcare bums you out, imagine how some of the rest of us feel!). But today I’m actually feeling pretty good today, which is out of sorts with Marty Burnham The Moon Witch, who is feeling trapped by hope. That probably needs a whole several hundred words of analysis by itself. But, blimey love, lighten up, am I right? Luckily I’m here to bring the mood back up again. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 17 - 20 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 15 of my diary . The siren call of the moon returns, and so do I (from my holidays). Surprisingly, despite being absent for 10 days, my moon calendar in the game still only pegs me at day 17. Perhaps the point of a daily ritual is that it sort of doesn t happen unless you do it. In any case, because of recent geo-political events, a trip to Ireland, a new Louis Theroux documentary, and a pregnant-person-Tamagotchi game all landing at around the same time as I start up the Moon Ritual, I must warn you that this entry is long, and liable to get very, very heavy . I m talking about pregnancy. And about choice. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 15 - 10 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 15 of my diary . There was no diary yesterday, but today is in fact yesterday’s diary. If that makes sense. Because today I am going on holiday and I am leaving my computer behind. No diaries for a week. I hope Marty Burnham The Moon Witch will be okay. I hope the earth will be okay. Without context that sounds extremely conceited, doesn’t it? (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 14 - 8 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 14 of my diary . Yeah I miscounted the days, so today is actually day 14, but only one meteor hit the earth? I think? Honestly I’m not sure any more. Yesterday I went to get some pasta from the shop on my way home and they’d run out which made me really sad. Then I was properly passive-aggressive but also sort of just aggressive actually to my housemate, because he made late night chilli and got a load of rice the sink and left it. Apparently household chores are often a final straw for me. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 12 apparently - 7 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 12 of my diary . After last week I left Marty Burnham alone for the whole bank holiday weekend. I wanted the world to explode and didn’t give a heck about it. Today I find I have once again been given a surprising reprieve; despite not playing for three whole days I have only missed one in-game. But I didn’t want or ask for this one. I wanted to abdicate responsibility but it is still here. Hello responsibility. Life goes on. Argh. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day 10 - 2 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day 10 of my diary . Today Marty Burnham The Moon Witch, and consequently I, am/are/is contemplating her place in the universe. I’m not prepared for the existential wallop of doing that, to be honest. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day nine - 1 May 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day nine of my diary . Marty The Moon Witch’s thoughts today feel like, once again, Large Emotional States for me. Today she seems to be accepting her exile, or at least muttering to herself over and over again that she totally doesn’t mind being alone. Her ritual mantra, “They don’t control how I feel” sounds a bit like she’s trying to convince herself again. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day eight - 30 April 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day eight of my diary . On day eight we start the weekly ritual by clearing the former ritual objects, beginning again with the first of a new set. This time I start with a sprig of plant in a bottle. It makes a bright tinkling noise when Marty Burnham The Moon Witch picks it up. Marty seems tired again today, which means we’re back in sync, because I am knackered . I fell asleep on the train to work listening to a podcast about bad books . (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day back at work - 29 April 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day seven of my diary . We’ve managed a week! Sorry for not posting yesterday. I promise I played! I have transferred Marty Burnham the Moon Witch back to my work PC, but there’s been another small time skip, so Marty was forced to live through day seven again and, even worse, let the meteor hit earth on day six. I am inadvertently exposing Marty Burnham to a lot of existential complications. At least two different versions of her exist. Plus the versions of her that anyone else playing this has created in their heads. They’re probably not all called Marty, for starters. And they don’t know that each of the others exists! So in fact I’m mostly heaping existential concerns on myself, but on behalf of Marty. Existentialism by proxy. (more…)
- Ritual Of The Moon diary: day seven - 27 April 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day seven of my diary . We’ve managed a week! Today’s Ritual Of The Moon opened with what I believe we millennials call a big mood. “Why shouldn’t I let them die? They don’t care about me.” Sometimes I idly like to imagine we can look at our parents generation as Rorschach in Watchmen looked unto, well, everyone. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth as they realise they’ve ruined everything and they need us to save them and pay for their retirement homes. And we’ll look down and whisper “No.” In reality what will happen is that we will never figure anything out because Silicon Valley has reached such a zenith of recursive doucheholery that they’re reinventing buses, and applying terms like “sustainable cost structure” to k…
- Ritual Of The Moon Diary: day six - 26 April 2019
Ritual Of The Moon takes around five minutes a day to play, for 28 days. Today is day six of my diary for the first time ever!!. Finally Marty Burnham the Moon Witch has broken out of her time loop into a never before encountered day! This diary is simultaneously two weeks and less than a week old. Yet with the dawning of a crisp new day six comes a revelation for me about Marty Burnham’s past: BETRAYAL! (more…)
