Sleeping Beauty The Eighth Plate
Sleeping Beauty, and she decides
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- No install — plays in your browser
About the game
An interactive telling of Sleeping Beauty in which she makes the decisions. Twenty-two decision points, twelve endings, forty illustrations.
Perrault's court leaves the eighth fairy off the list because there are only seven gold plates. That is the whole tale in one object: a household with a counting problem and a person who does not fit the count.
One decision belongs to her mother — a single decision made about her before she could speak. Everything after it is hers. The tale forks hard at the spindle: take it and the hundred years are yours, and the sleep is not a gap — she is awake inside it and decides when, or whether, to come out. Refuse it and she gets a whole life with an unspent curse in a locked room, and a second spindle at forty when she is tired enough for it to matter.
Every telling passes through one meeting. A young man arrives in all of them; what changes is where, what she already is when he does, and what he has been told about her. Whether he stays is still hers.
No score, no timer, no fail state. Read, choose, and the tale goes somewhere.
How to play
- Read the page, then choose what she does from the list of choices below it.
- Back undoes your last choice, so you can pick a different one.
- Each telling ends in one of twelve endings, named on the last page together with the path you took.
- Tell it again starts the tale from the beginning, so you can choose differently and find other endings.
- There is no score, no timer and no fail state: read, choose and see where the tale goes.
Controls
| Touch | Tap a choice to take it; Back and Start again sit at the bottom of the screen. |
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| Mouse | Click a choice to take it; the icons at the edge of the picture turn sound effects and music on or off. |
| Keyboard | Up and down arrows move between the choices, Esc goes back one choice and M turns the music on or off. |
| Gamepad | D-pad or left stick moves between the choices, A takes one and B goes back. |
