Serenade
Sixty-three ways to say it
The game loads when you press play.
- Free
- No ads
- No account needed
- No install — plays in your browser
About the game
Someone has something to say to you, and sixty-three ways to say it.
Write a message — congratulations, a birthday, a thank you, an apology — and watch it arrive. Sixty-three scenes, each one a real animal or physical behaviour rendered in code, and each one spells your words using nothing but the way the thing actually works. Fireflies converge on unison and a pond of frogs converges on the opposite, because it is the same equation with the sign flipped. Twenty koalas press themselves against the coolest trunks in a stand, so the message is a thermal map. Mice hug the edges of a half-iced cake until the routes they wear become channels deep enough to throw a shadow. A clutch of eggs talks itself into hatching together.
A scene can only write what its own behaviour has marks for — a fox has time for seventeen dives — so the scene spells the short thing and anything longer arrives as a letter once it has finished. Nothing is animated into position and nothing is faked: each scene is a simulation with a message somewhere inside it, and every one has its own music, its own five acts and its own ending.
How to play
- Pick a scene that fits, or shorten the message
- Only you can see this. Scrub it, then send it.
- Anyone with this link can watch it, from the beginning, whenever they open it.
- Give them this code, or send the link. When you press play, it plays for everyone at once.
Controls
| Touch | Tap the fields and buttons to write, choose and send; drag along the playback bar to scrub. |
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| Mouse | Click the fields and buttons; click or drag along the playback bar to scrub. |
| Keyboard | Type in the text boxes; arrow keys or WASD move between buttons, Enter or Space presses, Escape goes back. |
| Gamepad | D-pad or stick moves between buttons, A presses, B goes back; in a text box, A types, B deletes, Y adds a space, Start is done. |
